Aganetha Smart, a former Olympic athlete was famous in the 1920s, but now, at age 104, lives in a nursing home, alone and forgotten by history. When her quiet life is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of two young strangers, Aganetha...
Social Change
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Auteur:Snyder, CarrieSommaire: - Auteur:Roanhorse, RebeccaSommaire:
Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse's sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sun - finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and Locus awards. There are no tides...
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Auteur:Solomon, AndrewSommaire:From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics' Circle Award-and one of the most original thinkers of our time-"Andrew Solomon's magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays" (...
- Auteur:Garbes, AngelaSommaire:
Angela Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her...
- Auteur:Pinker, StevenSommaire:
The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the...
- Auteur:Grubbs, Jennifer D.Sommaire:
Ecoliberation is a captivating and creative glimpse into the world of direct action, animal and earth liberation, and political repression. In stories that are simultaneously heartbreaking, riddled with tension and contradiction, and...
- Auteur:Swanson, GillianSommaire:
Examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. This work explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and the...
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Auteur:Lewis, David, High, StevenSommaire:Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process; it is also a social and cultural phenomenon. The rusting detritus of our industrial past-the wrecked halls of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless...
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Auteur:King, Martin LutherSommaire:In these lectures, given a few months before his death, Dr. King analyzed the significance of the outbreak of riots in major cities of the United States, and, in the light of such outbreaks, restated his concept of the uses of non-...
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Auteur:Baggini, JulianSommaire: - Auteur:Goswami, AmitSommaire:
Amorçant la réflexion avec une question telle que «Dieu existe, alors qu’allons-nous faire de cette vérité?», Goswami en appelle à un plan d’action où les principes de l’activisme quantique seraient appliqués à un ensemble d’enjeux...
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Auteur:Diamond, Jared M.Sommaire: - Auteur:Weller, Fay, Wilson, MarySommaire:
Changemakers is the guidebook for ordinary people aiming to create a more just and ecological society. We hold the power to make personal changes that can drive local changes and tip into large-scale social transformation. Explores...
- Auteur:Piketty, ThomasSommaire:
Thomas Piketty exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.
- Auteur:Feifer, JasonSommaire:
“ Build for Tomorrow will change the way you think so you can overcome any obstacle and reach your full potential.”—Jim Kwik, New York Times bestselling author of Limitless The moments of greatest change can also be the moments of...
- Auteur:Joseph, Porsche, Joseph, FrederickSommaire:
Featuring over two dozen interviews with activists, authors, actors, and politicians, this is the essential resource for those of us who want to leave the world better than we found it.
- Auteur:Mafi, TaherehSommaire:
The devastatingly romantic fifth novella in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series, chronicling the events after Imagine Me, the explosive sixth novel. Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the...
- Auteur:Rasenberger, Jim.Sommaire:
Beginning with New York City's first ever New Year's ball drop, 1908 got off to a spectacular start. As the year went on, America witnessed President Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet sailing around the globe, Henry Ford's unveiling...
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Auteur:Turner, SteveSommaire:Telling stories specific to Columbia Plateau farmers and farmland, this journalist puts the lives and difficulties of individual farmers into national and global contexts. He interweaves family narratives, historical episodes and his...
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Auteur:Pompe, JeffreySommaire:The constant assault of natural forces make fragile barrier islands some of the most rapidly changing locations in the world, but human activities have had enormous impact on these islands as well. In Altered Environments, Jeffrey and...
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