Book type: non-fiction (1983)
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Secrets of a Wildlife Watcher by Jim Arnosky EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Explains the techniques used in finding wild animals such as owls, turtles, squirrels, foxes, beavers, and deer, and in getting close enough to study their behavior.
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See What You Made Me Do : Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill EN
AustraliaDescription:
Domestic abuse is a national emergency- one in four Australian women has experienced violence from a man she was intimate with. But too often we ask the wrong question- why didn't she leave? We should be asking- why did he do it? Investigative journalist Jess Hill puts perpetrators - and the systems that enable them - in the spotlight. See What You Made Me Do is a deep dive into the abuse so many women and children experience - abuse that is often reinforced by the justice system they trust to protect them. Critically, it shows that we can drastically reduce domestic violence - not in generati... continue
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Seed of South Sudan : Memoir of a “Lost Boy” Refugee by Majok Marier, Estelle Ford-Williamson EN
Country: Africa / 
South Sudan
South Sudan
Description:
One of the most detailed books on the Lost Boys of Sudan since South Sudan became the world’s newest nation in 2011, this is a memoir of Majok Marier, an Agar Dinka who was 7 when war came to his village in southern Sudan. During a 21-year civil war, 2 million lives were lost and 80 percent of the South Sudanese people were displaced. Tens of thousands of boys like Majok fled from the Sudanese Army that wanted to kill them. Surviving on grasses, grains, and help from villagers along the way, Majok walked nearly a thousand miles to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Majok and 3,800 like him emigrated ... continue
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Selected Poems by Walter De la Mare EN
EnglandDescription:
A collection of poetry by the acclaimed British novelist, poet, and anthologist draws on natural imagery and traditional poetic forms to celebrate the beauty of nature, while at the same time prompting the reader to reflect on the implications of mortality. Original.
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Selected Poems by Octavio Paz, G. Aroul EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Octavio Paz, asserts Eliot Weinberger in his introduction to these Selected Poems, is among the last of the modernists "who drew their own maps of the world." For Latin America's foremost living poet, his native Mexico has been the center of a global mandala, a cultural configuration that, in his life and work, he has traced to its furthest reaches: to Spain, as a young Marxist during the Civil War; to San Francisco and New York in the early 1940s; to Paris, as a surrealist, in the postwar years; to India and Japan in 1952, and to the East again as his country's ambassador to India from 1962 t... continue
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Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, and her works are among the finest in all contemporary poetry. She is loved and honored throughout the world as one of the great humanistic voices of our time.
This bilingual edition of selected poems was translated and edited by Doris Dana, a close personal friend with whom Gabriela lived and worked with prior to her death in 1957. These translations give a profound insight into the original poetry of this greatest of contemporary Latin American women. They were selected from her four major works ... continue
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Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye EN
FranceDescription:
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Se... continue
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Separate Is Never Equal : Sylvia Mendez and Her Family s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--
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Ser mujer negra en España by Desirée Bela-Lobedde ES
SpainDescription:
Ser mujer negra en España es un libro necesario para entender el racismo y, sobre todo, para que nunca más se produzca. ¿Cuánto tiempo llevas aquí? ¿Por qué hablas tan bien español? ¿Ya has ido a tu país? ¿Me enseñas tus papeles? ¿De dónde es una belleza tan exótica como tú? ¿Es verdad eso de que las mujeres negras sois unas fieras en la cama? Como una suerte de memorias, que van desde la infancia hasta la adultez, Desirée Bela-Lobedde, activista afroespañola, nos cuenta cómo es vivir siendo mujer y negra en España, cómo es sentirse siempre diferente y cómo es ser testigo del racismo que todav... continue