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"As the U.S. continues the effort to rebuild in the aftermath of a devastating electromagnetic pulse that plunges the country into darkness, John Matherson confronts his old commanding officer, who may be the turning point in the quest to unite the country again."--
2) Diamond Hill
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"It is 1987 and three years since Britain signed the Joint Declaration agreeing to hand over its last colony, Hong Kong, to China in 1997. With that declaration comes the promise that the city will remain unchanged for fifty years. But upheaval is already happening in Diamond Hill. Once the 'Hollywood of the Orient,' it is now a shanty town and an eyesore right in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddha, a recovering heroin addict, returns home...
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The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on documents from archives in China and the West, interviews with key figures, and eyewitness reporting over three decades.
The story takes the listener from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century to the age of globalization, the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China,...
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2014.
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After hearing about efforts in Venezuela to develop a more equitable as well as sustainable food and agriculture system, filmmaker Simon Cunich heads to Venezuela to investigate what we might learn about food sovereignty from the country's various initiatives to reduce the price of food by opening up urban land to community farming. So they may become urban gardeners, the nation is providing citizens with free seeds, tools, and other materials needed...
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Smith describes the political ideas of Chief Justice Taney and discusses his contributions to American constitutional law. Taney is revealed as a socially minded jurist who believed in the power of the whole people to regulate the affairs of life for the common good. As a political leader, Taney belongs in the democratic line that runs from Jefferson to Franklin D. Roosevelt; as a jurist he is a forerunner of Holmes and Brandeis. Originally published...
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Imager portfolio volume 7
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2013.
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Earning a promotion after the events in Imager's Battalion, Quaeryt is placed under the command of his brother-in-law, Bhayar. Quaeryt leads an Imagers team into hostile lands once held by the tyrannical Rex Kharst, where they confront a powerful order of women.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 4
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NC 1290L
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Chronicles how the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission attempted to halt racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s through an extensive propaganda effort to label civil rights leaders and their followers as communists.
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Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until Zion falls under siege to the Machine Army. Not much time separates the last human enclave on Earth from the 250,000 Sentinels programmed to destroy humankind. But the citizens of Zion, emboldened by Morpheus' conviction that the One will fulfill the Oracles Prophecy and end the war with the Machines. This rests all manner of hope and expectation on Neo, who finds himself stalled by...
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Foreword by Ralph Nader. In Corporation Nation Derber addresses the unchecked power of today's corporations to shape the way we work, earn, buy, sell, and think-the very way we live. Huge, far-reaching mergers are now commonplace, downsizing is rampant, and our lines of communication, news and entertainment media, jobs, and savings are increasingly controlled by a handful of global-and unaccountable-conglomerates. We are, in effect, losing our financial...
20) Typhoon
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Just as the British are about to return Hong Kong to Chinese rule, Joe Lennox, a young operative for SIS, loses both his girlfriend and his first high-profile asset--a prominent defector who disappears from a safe house.
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