Middlebury College Magazine
Title | Middlebury College Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 388 |
Release | 1992 |
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The Rising
Title | The Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan D'Agostino |
Publisher | Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0804140162 |
"The story of Bill Petit, the Connecticut man whose family was killed in a home invasion, and his remarkable recovery from that trauma"--Provided by publisher.
Middlebury Magazine
Title | Middlebury Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2007 |
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Black Faces, White Spaces
Title | Black Faces, White Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Finney |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1469614480 |
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Sadness Is a White Bird
Title | Sadness Is a White Bird PDF eBook |
Author | Moriel Rothman-Zecher |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018-02-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1501176285 |
**A Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist** **A National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Debut Fiction** In this “nuanced, sharp, and beautifully written” (Michael Chabon) debut novel, a young man prepares to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close relationship to two Palestinian siblings with his deeply ingrained loyalties to family and country. The story begins in an Israeli military jail, where—four days after his nineteenth birthday—Jonathan stares up at the fluorescent lights of his cell and recalls the series of events that led him there. Two years earlier: Moving back to Israel after several years in Pennsylvania, Jonathan is ready to fight to preserve and defend the Jewish state. But he is also conflicted about the possibility of having to monitor the occupied Palestinian territories, a concern that grows deeper and more urgent when he meets Nimreen and Laith—the twin daughter and son of his mother’s friend. From that morning on, the three become inseparable: wandering the streets on weekends, piling onto buses toward new discoveries, laughing uncontrollably. They share joints on the beach, trading snippets of poems, intimate secrets, family histories, resentments, and dreams. But with his draft date rapidly approaching, Jonathan wrestles with the question of what it means to be proud of your heritage, while also feeling love for those outside of your own family. And then that fateful day arrives, the one that lands Jonathan in prison and changes his relationship with the twins forever. “Unflinching in its honesty, unyielding in its moral complexity” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author), Sadness Is a White Bird explores one man’s attempts to find a place for himself, discovering in the process a beautiful, against-the-odds love that flickers like a candle in the darkness of a never-ending conflict.
The Demon in Democracy
Title | The Demon in Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Ryszard Legutko |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2018-06-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1594039925 |
Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature. In The Demon in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutality. Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the political systems to which they pledged their loyalty. And both systems refuse to undertake any critical examination of their ideological prejudices.
Catalogue of the Library of Middlebury College
Title | Catalogue of the Library of Middlebury College PDF eBook |
Author | Middlebury College. Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1859 |
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