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  • Protest History of the United States - Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

    Protest History of the United States - Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
    Apr 22 2025
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    Title: Protest History of the United States
    Author: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-22-2025
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, History & Culture

    Summary:
    Exploring 400 years of protest and resistance in US history—and what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic world In this timely new book in Beacon’s successful ReVisioning History series, professor Gloria Browne-Marshall delves into the history of protest movements and rebellion in the United States. Beginning with Indigenous peoples’ resistance to European colonization and continuing through to today’s climate change demonstrations, Browne-Marshall expands how to think about protest through sharing select historical moments and revealing the role of key players involved in those efforts. Drawing upon legal documents, archival material, government documents and secondary sources, A Protest History of the United States gives voice to those who pushed back against the mistreatment of others, themselves, and in some instances planet Earth. Browne-Marshall highlights stories of individuals from all walks of life, backgrounds, and time periods who helped bring strong attention to their causes. Those stories include those of Wahunsenacock, more commonly known to history as Chief Powhatan, who took on English invaders in pre-colonial America in 1607; legendary boxer Muhammad Ali who refused to be inducted into the US military during the Vietnam era and appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court; and David Buckel, LGBTQ+ rights lawyer and environmental activist who protested against fossil fuels by committing self-immolation in 2018. Regardless of whether these protests accomplished their end goals, Browne-Marshall reminds us that not only is dissent meaningful and impactful but is an essential tool for eliciting long lasting change.
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    6 hrs
  • Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle Against the CIA to Bring the Nazis to Justice - Jack Fairweather

    Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle Against the CIA to Bring the Nazis to Justice - Jack Fairweather
    Feb 27 2025
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    Title: Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle Against the CIA to Bring the Nazis to Justice
    Author: Jack Fairweather
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-27-2025
    Publisher: PGRH UK
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, History & Culture

    Summary:
    Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEER How do you rebuild a nation that wanted you dead? Returning to Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, Fritz Bauer – a gay Jewish lawyer and outspoken critic of Hitler – was determined to reclaim the Germany he had once loved. But he soon saw that the perpetrators of the Holocaust had largely got away with their crimes. Top Nazi officers – mass-murders and cruel sadists – had been given plum jobs at major German companies; held prestigious offices in top universities; were in positions of power as lawyers, judges and political advisors. The war was over and many were keen to forget and move on. Thus began Bauer’s dogged fight for justice and a reckoning with the past. Drawing on recently released CIA files, unpublished family papers and secret diaries, this is the story of one man’s battle to bring down the perpetrators of the greatest crime in human history, and to make sure the world never forgets what happened. © Jack Fairweather 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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  • Fire-Dwellers - Margaret Laurence

    Fire-Dwellers - Margaret Laurence
    Feb 25 2025
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    Title: Fire-Dwellers
    Author: Margaret Laurence
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-25-2025
    Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics, Contemporary Women, Family Life

    Summary:
    Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past. The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days. Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone’s soul.
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  • Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence - Meg Stone

    Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence - Meg Stone
    Feb 25 2025
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    Title: Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence
    Author: Meg Stone
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-25-2025
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Instructional & How To, Marriage & Family, Social Science

    Summary:
    A self-defense expert helps women and other targets of gender-based violence discern fact from fiction, improve their personal safety, and support social change Personal safety shouldn’t mean avoiding danger or living in fear There are two kinds of safety choices: those that disrupt power structures and those that leave them unquestioned. Gender-based violence is a social and political problem, but it’s often enacted in the most intimate spheres of our lives. In this book, nationally recognized leader in abuse prevention Meg Stone debunks baseless advice we get about personal safety. Tips like “don’t go shopping alone” and “don’t wear a ponytail” are not based on any evidence, but that doesn’t stop police officers and other men in authority from telling women to restrict our lives. Sharing stories from a Black transgender woman building a grassroots group to defend her community, to a would-be Taekwondo Olympian fighting back in the courts, to a pharmaceutical scientist fighting back in the lab, Stone argues there are two opposing philosophies of how to make people safer, one of which exacerbates victim-blame (safety through compliance) and the other challenges it (safety through resistance). Stone gives readers practical strategies for keeping themselves and their loved ones safer in ways that that affirm their right to be full participants in social, political and professional life.
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    6 hrs