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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today.
Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and "conventional wisdom" -- a phrase he coined -- Galbraith...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Denial helps us manage difficult information rather than face the truth-about ourselves, our loved ones, and the world around us. But it can also stymie progress and upend our ability to take action in our lives. Here, Dr. Jane Greer shows us how to recognize, battle, and ultimately conquer denial in our lives, so we may face the truth and move forward"--
67) The past is red
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love the world. The future is blue. Endless blue... except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those...
68) 27 magic words
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Although Kobi's parents sailed into a storm five years ago, she believes they are alive, and when she is sent from her grandmother's luxurious Paris apartment to live with an uncle in Iowa, Kobi tells lies that soon catch up with her.
69) Sojourner Truth
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the former slave who could neither read nor write, yet earned a reputation as one of the most articulate andoutspoken antislavery and women's rights activists in the UnitedStates.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a project for her "creative non-fiction module" at a school for the arts, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of the Truth Commission, through which she and her two best friends ask classmates and faculty about various open secrets, while Norm's famous sister reveals some very unsettling truths of her own.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Only if, with regard to the diversity of religions, there are questions about truth and falsehood do we have a problem about the pluralism of religions and the unity of truth. That problem is not concerned with preserving religious liberty, freedom of worship, and the toleration, in a particular society or in the world, of a diversity of religious institutions, communities, practices, and beliefs. It is concerned only with the question of where, in...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Goes beyond the myths and legends to reveal new insights into the real life of Sojourner Truth
Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a national figure in the struggle for the emancipation of both...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
True or false? It's rarely that simple. There is more than one truth about most things. The Internet disseminates knowledge but it also spreads hatred. Eating meat is nutritious but it's also damaging to the environment. When we communicate we naturally select the truths that are most helpful to our agenda. We can select truths constructively to inspire organizations, encourage children, and drive progressive change. Or we can select truths that give...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. At the center of this attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on South Africa." "In No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu argues that...
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