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In Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B. Jucan traces a genealogy of post-truth intimately tied to globalizing modernity and connects the production of repeatable fakeness with capitalism and Cartesian metaphysics. Through case studies that cross times and geographies, the book unpacks the notion of fakeness through the related logics of dissimulation (deception) and simulation (performativity) as seen with software/AI, television, plastics, and the internet....
82) Matteo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When eleven-year-old Matteo literally sprouts leaves and grows bark during one of his baseball games, he digs into his family tree to find out what it all means.
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"Memoirs of a Southern Woman Within the Lines...by Mary Polk Branch...relates the experiences of a southern woman during the Civil War...goes on to describe the South in ante-bellum days. The author is a relative of President Polk." -Boston Globe, November 12, 1927
"Full of interesting narrative regarding the author's experiences in the Civil War." - The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, 1916
"The coexistence of brutal oppression and genuine...
84) Monster's Enemy
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He's in love with the one witch who could destroy them all. Attending Blackthorn Academy has always been a dream to the Earth-borne witch with basic powers. When the invitation arrives, she can't wait to get to the place where so many of her ancestors thrived. Only, she arrived a week early, her magic is on the fritz, and her father tampered with her transcripts so she has to find a tutor to survive the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and fast....
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In Mossback, David Pritchett traverses geography, history, and genealogy to explore landscapes and mythologies at the intersection of environmental, indigenous, and social justice. This collection of a dozen essays searches terrain-from the heart of a swamp to the modern grid lines remaking our watersheds, to the tracks of the animals who share this earth, to the inner landscapes of the soul-to find glimpses of light in dark places and hope in painful...
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Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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xv, 382 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
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English
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"Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history--and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin--all while converging at a single Chinatown address"--
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Orphaned as a small child, Cathy is raised by her paternal uncle and already has an ex-husband by the age of twenty-eight.
Cathy runs her online crystals and essential oil business, from her small cottage in Green Valley, in the Northwest of England.
A letter from a solicitor changes Cathy's life and introduces her to the enchanted mill and the ghost of her recently passed grandmother. Also, a family she knew nothing about.
Cathy learns that she...
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Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and shocking'-John Foot, historianThe fastest-rising force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia-a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging to prominence in recent years, it has waged a fierce culture war against the Left, polarised political debate around World War II, and even secured the largest vote share in Italy's...
89) Mystery of Man
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A treasure trove of information on the Siler family, including mementoes, genealogical charts, letters and Family meeting notes. From humble German beginnings to a wide and successful dynasty spanning Pennsylvania, Georgia, Tennessee and even further.
"Far down in the ages that are coming when all the Silers may have emigrated, somebody will want to know the origin of the name. The name originally signified a rope maker, or perhaps a dealer in. or...
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Based on the bestselling book of N. A. Kun, this is an easy-to-read, comprehensive collection of Greek myths. Myths about the gods and their struggle with giants and titans presented in this book are based mainly on Hesiod's poem "Theogony" (The Origins and genealogies of the Gods). Some legends are also borrowed from Homer's poems "Iliad" and "Odyssey" and the poem of the Roman poet Ovid "Metamorphoses" (Transformations).
91) Nemesis
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Courtney volume 22
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2023.
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460 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her--to survive, no matter what. He joins Napoleon's army and is taken to Egypt, but with the world at war and traitors in every...
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Meet Periwinkle Manning. Twenty-nine. B&B co-owner. Dabbler in genealogy. And ghost whisperer? When Peri gets an out-of-the-blue call from an old high school classmate, she doesn't expect to get a concussion and see a ghost for her troubles. The ghost of an old boyfriend who was murdered but can't remember who did the deed. Peri gets help from a gorgeous PI she mistook for an Uber driver, his partners, her grandmother, and several others. While they're...
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This small book is a chronicle of the life and psychology of the author William Gunderson's grandfather of the same exact name. It is part memoir and part history book of the author's paternal line. William Gunderson Sr. was a part Norwegian, part French-Candian-American who grew up on the streets of 1940s-50s era Brooklyn, Kings, NY. His parents and family members were complicated people who shaped his complicated character. This memoir written by...
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This is one of the most accessible of Nietzsche's works. It was published in 1887, a year after Beyond Good and Evil, and he intended it to be a continuation of the investigation into the theme of morality. In the first work, Nietzsche attacked the notion of morality as nothing more than institutionalized weakness, and he criticized past philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of moral precepts. In On the Genealogy of Morals, subtitled "A...
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An anthropological scientific study of ancient Zoroastrian Judaism, Christianity, and Islam of Semitic and nomadic Iran-with general East Asian Hindu and Buddhist philosophical, social, and religious reference to the newer Catholic order of chivalry of the Knights Templar, including genealogical cultural Mystery Cryptology of The Holy Grail -transcripted angelic or alien sightings and encounters, which become regular family traditions as heritage...
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In 1988, a study by William Thorndale was published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, he stated that his research proved that Col Richard Lee was the son of a John Leyes, a clothier, and his wife Jane Hancock and that Richard had been born not at of Coton Hall in Shropshire England, but in Worcester England. In this publishing, Thorndale presented what appeared to be legitimate sources and arguments which carefully and systematically...
97) Passionate mothers, powerful sons: the lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 403 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
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English
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"The stories of Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome, before and after birthing their sons, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, consecutively."--
98) Past Remembering
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English
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To say Asha West's life was in something of a slump would be a fairly accurate description. Her job wasn't as satisfying as it had been, as she knows it should be, and then there was her failed relationship with her first love. What she desperately needed was a change of scene.
Her family wants her to return home so she applies for and gets a position in Brisbane. With a couple of months before her new job begins she's approached to do some genealogical...
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History of Middle-earth volume 12
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English
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Throughout this vast and intricate mythology, says Publishers Weekly, "one marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J.R.R. Tolkien's labor. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation." In this capstone to that creation, we find the chronology of Middle-earth's later Ages, the Hobbit genealogies, and the Western language or Common Speech. These early...
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This book is a collection of writings and reflections in which I tell the story of people, places and experiences that shaped my life. This book is divided into three sections: "Seeking, Living and Blessed, Joys and Sorrow".
Section one: "Seeking". I seek to find my identity, my genealogy from my grandparents, searching for God, church and family. All seeking a meaningful life.
Section two: "Living Blessed". Includes the story of leaving Mississippi....
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