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A'mak-i Hayal by Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"A'mâk-ı Hayâl, yeni harflerle ve sadeleştirilmiş olarak birçok kez basıldığı halde, ciddi bir değerlendirmeye neden konu olamamıştır? Bu sorunun yanıtı, yine yayınların kendisindedir. Bu yayınlar, ne yazık ki, eseri ciddi bir değerlendirme konusu kılabilecek bir titizlik ve özenden yoksundur... -
![L'Arabe du futur 5 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1992-1994 by Riad Sattouf]()
L'Arabe du futur 5 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1992-1994 by Riad Sattouf
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRiad a 14 ans, ses cheveux blonds ont disparu, et il a un physique difficile. À la fin du tome précédent, son père s’est enfui en Syrie avec son plus jeune frère, Fadi. Tandis que sa mère utilise tous les recours légaux pour récupérer son fils, Riad poursuit son exploration de cet âge pénible qu’est l’adolescence et se réfugie dans le paranormal... -
![Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire]()
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live... -
![Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher]()
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRead-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline—poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment... -
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![The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper by Aaron McGruder]()
The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper by Aaron McGruder
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first anthology of the beloved comic strip that inspired the critically acclaimed Cartoon Network show. In 1999, Aaron McGruder launched a cultural phenomenon with his smart and bitingly satirical comic strip, The Boondocks. It centers on the experiences of two young African-American boys, Huey and Riley, who move from inner-city Chicago to the suburbs (or the "boondocks" to them)... -
![The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid]()
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost... -
![Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf]()
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespite the explosion in work on African American and religious history, little is known about Black Muslims who came to America as slaves. Most assume that what Muslim faith any Africans did bring with them was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane Diouf shows in this new, meticulously researched volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale... -
![Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek]()
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
![Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire]()
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings...Categorized as:
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![The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Miko Peled, Miko Peled]()
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Miko Peled, Miko Peled
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis... -
![Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan]()
Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work "Capital"... -
![The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack]()
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGetting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how—and why—disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body... -
![American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear by Khaled A. Beydoun, Neil Shah]()
American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear by Khaled A. Beydoun, Neil Shah
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I remember the four words that repeatedly scrolled across my mind after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. ‘Please don’t be Muslims, please don’t be Muslims.’ The four words I whispered to myself on 9/11 reverberated through the mind of every Muslim American that day, and every day after... -
![A Third University Is Possible by La Paperson]()
A Third University Is Possible by La Paperson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion... -
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![Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat]()
Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009“The defiant spirit of [Iran] is brought to life in this monumental history of the past 500 years.”—Richard Spencer, The Times (London) “A majestic work that goes a long way in unraveling . . . the country’s enigmas and apparent contradictions... -
![Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice by Anita Diamant, Melissa Berton]()
Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice by Anita Diamant, Melissa Berton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Anita Diamant comes a timely collection of essays to help inspire period positive activism around the globe.When Period. End of Sentence. won an Oscar in 2019, the film’s co-producer and Executive Director of The Pad Project, Melissa Berton, told the audience: “A period should end a sentence, not a girl’s education... -
![The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne]()
The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPaid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate... -
![The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph by Scott Ellsworth]()
The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph by Scott Ellsworth
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe true story of the game that never should have happened.Something was happening to basketball.In the wartime fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing the game forever... -
![Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol]()
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe story that jolted the conscience of the nation when it first appeared in The New YorkerJonathan Kozol is one of America’s most forceful and eloquent observers of the intersection of race, poverty, and education. His books, from the National Book Award–winning Death at an Early Age to his most recent, the critically acclaimed Shame of the Nation, are touchstones of the national conscience... -
![Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy]()
Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Allied victory in 1945 - though comprehensive - was far from inevitable. By 1942 almost the entire resources of continental Europe were in German hands and Japan had wiped out the western colonial presence in Asia. Democracy appeared to have had its day... -
![Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels]()
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Marx explains how, under capitalism, people rely on labor to live. In the past people could rely on Nature itself for their natural needs; in modern society, if one wants to eat, one must work: it is only through money that one may survive. Thus, man becomes a slave to his wages... -
![Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy by Julia Preston, Julia Preston]()
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy by Julia Preston, Julia Preston
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reportersOpening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy... -
![The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World by Hugh Brody]()
The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World by Hugh Brody
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHugh Brody crystallizes three decades of studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers in this profound and provocative book. Contrary to stereotype, he says, it is the farmers and their colonizing descendants—ourselves—who are the true nomads, doomed to the geographical and spiritual restlessness embodied in the story of Genesis... -
![The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions by Rosa Luxemburg]()
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions by Rosa Luxemburg
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis electronic version includes an active table of contents, short introduction and 2 graphics... -
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![Salâh ad-Deen al-Ayubi by علي محمد الصلابي]()
Salâh ad-Deen al-Ayubi by علي محمد الصلابي
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe renowned contemporary Arab historian of Islam, Dr. Ali Muhammad as-Sallâbi has written a fascinating biography of a man who looms larger than life throughout history, yet who remains largely unknown to people outside the Arab world. Dr. as-Sallâbi’s meticulous research has effectively filled that gap in our knowledge. His work is more than just biography, as the reader will see... -
![A Gift From Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram by Andrea C. Hoffmann, Patience Ibrahim]()
A Gift From Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram by Andrea C. Hoffmann, Patience Ibrahim
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe inspirational story of a pregnant young Nigerian woman and the horrors she endured to save her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram.When she was nineteen, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several months later... -
![Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote by Doris Stevens]()
Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote by Doris Stevens
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA firsthand account of the National Woman’s Party, which organized and fought a fierce battle for passage of the 19th Amendment. The suffragists endured hunger strikes, forced feedings, and jail terms. First written in 1920 by Doris Stevens, this version was edited by Carol O’Hare... -
![Along the Trenches: A Journey Through Eastern Europe to Isfahan by Navid Kermani]()
Along the Trenches: A Journey Through Eastern Europe to Isfahan by Navid Kermani
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBetween Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster - the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know today... -
![Global Challenges: War, Self-Determination and Responsibility for Justice by Iris Marion Young]()
Global Challenges: War, Self-Determination and Responsibility for Justice by Iris Marion Young
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the late twentieth century many writers and activists envisioned new possibilities of transnational cooperation toward peace and global justice. In this book Iris Marion Young aims to revive such hopes by responding clearly to what are seen as the global challenges of the modern day... -
![Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward]()
Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPiven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the U.S. welfare state among advanced industrial nations...
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