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The Second Coming : Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future. by Sherman, Carter.;
Equal parts investigative reporting and cultural criticism, 'The Second Coming' is a look at the sex lives of young adults in post-Roe America. Based on more than 100 interviews with teenagers and young adults, activists, and experts, this book explores how (mis)education, the internet, and politics are changing the ways in which young people experience sex, love, and relationships.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Social History; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality;
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City of sparrows / by Nour, Eva,author.; Broomé, Agnes,translator.;
"Growing up in Syria in the 1990s, Sami's childhood was unremarkable. His day-to-day life largely sheltered him from the horrors of the authoritarian government, until he founded a successful internet company-which landed him on the regime's radar. Suddenly Sami finds himself in jail, then forcibly enlisted into the Syrian army during the early days of a fast-growing civil uprising. Assigned to the mapmaking division, Sami yearns to simply serve his time and go home, even as he finds himself literally charting the course of the army's response to the growing revolt. The situation hits him full force when he receives a text from his girlfriend: "They're shooting at us." With that, Sami realizes that it is not enough to endure Assad's regime-he has to resist. He has to return home, to the city that will become known as the "capital of the revolution." Based on true events as told to journalist Eva Nour, City of Sparrows is the story of coming of age under siege and the power of hope in the face of unfathomable loss"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Government, Resistance to; Homecoming; Draftees;
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Blockchain revolution : how the technology behind Bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world / by Tapscott, Don,author.; Tapscott, Alex,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The first book to explain why blockchain technology will fundamentally change the Internet, what it does, and how we use it. Over the past 30 years, no theorist of the digital age has better explained the next big thing than Don Tapscott. For example, in Wikinomics, Tapscott was the first to show how the Internet provides the first global platform for mass collaboration. Now, he writes about a profound technological shift that will change how the world does business--and everything else--using blockchain technology, which powers the digital currency Bitcoin. The Internet as we know it is great for collaboration and communication, but is deeply flawed when it comes to commerce and privacy. The new blockchain technology facilitates peer-to-peer transactions without any intermediary such as a bank or governing body. Keeping the user's information anonymous, the blockchain validates and keeps a permanent public record of all transactions. That means that your personal information is private and secure, while all activity is transparent and incorruptible--reconciled by mass collaboration and stored in code on a digital ledger. With its advent, we will not need to trust each other in the traditional sense, because trust is built into the system itself. Although many opportunities for the blockchain require a digital currency, Bitcoin is only one application of this great innovation in computer science. The blockchain can hold any legal document, from deeds and marriage licences to educational degrees and birth certificates. Call it the World Wide Ledger. It enables smart contracts, decentralized autonomous organizations, decentralized government services, and transactions among things. The Internet of Everything needs a Ledger of Everything: the blockchain is a truly open, distributed, global platform that fundamentally changes what we can do online, how we do it, and who can participate. Tapscott, writing with his son Alex, a financial analyst and technologist, argues that the blockchain will shape the next era of prosperity--in finance, business, healthcare, education, governance, and beyond."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Data encryption (Computer science); Electronic commerce.; Electronic funds transfers;
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A nation is born : World War I and independence, 1910-1929 / by Nelson, Sheila.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 82), Internet addresses (p. 83) and index.Explains how Canada's identity and independence strengthened as a result of its successful battlefield victories during World War I.
Subjects: Nationalism; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
© c2006., Mason Crest Publishers,
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Development of the reserve system / by Rose, Simon,1961-; Corrigan, Kathleen.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses, and index.Examines the history of the reserve system in Canada.LSC
Subjects: Native peoples; Native peoples; Land use; Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples;
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Nelson Mandela / by Senker, Cath.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013; African National Congress; Presidents; Civil rights workers; Political prisoners; Anti-apartheid activists; Anti-apartheid movements;
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A knock on the door : the essential history of residential schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada / by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.; Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.What we have learned.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.Gathers material from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports to present the essential history and legacy of residential schools and inform the journey to reconciliation that Canadians are now embarked upon.LSC
Subjects: Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples; Truth commissions;
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Enemies and neighbors : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 / by Black, Ian,1953-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Enemies and Neighbors is a big, textured, and, crucially, balanced account of over 100 years of the Israel-Palestine conflict, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration (the famous pledge made by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 expressing sympathy for a national Jewish home in Palestine). 2017 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War in June 1967, during which Israel seized its current borders. Much of the existing literature on the Israel-Palestine conflict focuses on the era post-Israeli independence (starting in 1948), has a clear bias, and/or comes at the subject from an academic angle. This is a major, engagingly written trade history covering the entire arc of the conflict up to the present, and Black has done an extraordinary job of telling it from both sides.LSC
Subjects: Jewish-Arab relations; Arab-Israeli conflict.; Palestinian Arabs;
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Canada's residential schools : the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.volume 1. The history. Part 1, Origins to 1939 ; The history. Part 2, 1939 to 2000 -- volume 2. The Inuit and northern experience -- volume 3. The Métis experience -- volume 4. Missing children and unmarked burials -- volume 5. The legacy -- volume 6. Reconciliation.This is the McGill-Queen<U+2019>s University Press edition of the six volumes of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The product of over six years of research, the Commission's final report outlines the history and legacy of Canada's residential schools, and charts a pathway towards reconciliation.LSC
Subjects: Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples;
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Permanent record / by Snowden, Edward J.,1983-author.;
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online-- a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Snowden, Edward J., 1983-; United States. National Security Agency; WikiLeaks (Organization); Government information; Domestic intelligence; Electronic surveillance; Leaks (Disclosure of information); Whistle blowing;
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