Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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2018., Candlewick Press Call No: HI-INT 909.82 196 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans were killed in war, students across four continents took over colleges and city streets. Assassins murdered Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. Demonstrators turned out in Prague and Chicago, and in Mexico City, young people and Olympic athletes protested.
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2008., Adolescent, David Fickling Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC DOWD Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
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By Wiener, Gary2022., General, Greenhaven Publishing Call No: 321.8 WIE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Anthology of diverse perspectives addressing the conditions that allowed the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol and what it means for democracy"--
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2015., Juvenile, Crown Books for Young Readers Call No: 371.822 095491 Edition: First Crown edition Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Presents photographs of girls from around the world who have faced the same kind of discrimination as Malala Yousafzai, who was shot for trying to go to school in Taliban-controlled territory. Offers support, encouragement, and friendship to Malala and girls everywhere.
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-- Zimbabwe's struggle for change2003., Films for the Humanities and Sciences Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A portrait of the politics and history of Zimbabwe, this program traces Robert Mugabe's rise to power and depicts his 22-year dictatorship in a country where millions rely on food aid to survive, inflation is at 500 percent, and almost three quarters of the country's workforce is unemployed. Also included is rare footage that captures the demand for change and the popular support for the new opposition party, MDC, during the presidential election in 2002"--Container.
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By Guggenheim, Davis Parkes, Walter F. MacDonald, Laurie Newman, Thomas, 1955- Roland, Erich Finton, Greg Johnson, Brian (Film editor) Fuller, Brad (Film editor) Fox Searchlight Pictures Image Nation (Firm) Participant Media National Geographic Channel (Television station : Washington, D.C.) Parkes/MacDonald Productions[2015], 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: 371.822 095491 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
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-- Irish Republican Army and England2002., Chelsea House Call No: 941.508 WAG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: People at oddsSummary Note: Discusses the background and development of the conflict between the IRA fighting for the Catholics in Ireland and the British government forces supporting the Irish Protestants.
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2003., Juvenile, Rosen Pub. Group Call No: 941.508 DER Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Inside the world's most infamous terrorist organizationsSummary Note: Examines the historical origins, philosophy, and most notorious attacks of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and discusses its present activities and counter-terrorism efforts directed against it.
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[2014], Juvenile, Morgan Reynolds Publishing Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Out in frontSummary Note: Examines the life of Malala Yousafzai and her efforts to speak out against the oppression imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in her home country of Pakistan.
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2015., Adolescent, Cavendish Square Call No: 921 YOUSAFZAI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Leading womenSummary Note: A biography of Malala Yousafzai, a Muslim teenage girl from Pakistan, who advocates for education of women and children, and whom the Taliban attempted to assassinate on October 9, 2012.
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2005., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 941.608 COT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Arbitrary bordersSummary Note: A history of a period in the late 1960s known as "The Troubles" in which 4000 died before an uneasy peace came to Northern Ireland.
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c2000, Greenhaven Press Call No: 363.32 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Opposing viewpoints series
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-- Bleeding Kansas2001., Linnet Books Call No: 973.71 ZEI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Excerpts from diaries and letters help chronicle the events which lead to the formation of the Kansas Territory and describe how abolitionists and slaveowners tried to influence whether it would become a slave state or free.
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2014., Back Bay Books Call No: FIC BUL Edition: First Back Bay paperback edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows ten-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America.
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[2015], Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: Biography YOUSAFZAI Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Who is-- ?Summary Note: Presents a brief biography of Malala Yousafzai, discussing her passion for women's rights and how she earned the Nobel Peace Prize, youngest person ever to do so.
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[2015], Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: B YOU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Who is-- ?Summary Note: Presents a brief biography of Malala Yousafzai, discussing her passion for women's rights and how she earned the Nobel Peace Prize, youngest person ever to do so.