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und Dikatur German
translation of Scraps of Life, Gisela Ottmer, Deutsche Ubersetzung..5.25
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Agosin, Marjorie Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras. The stories of the
women who wove the names of their love-ones within quilts and remembered
thereby the 'disappeared'. Also sub-titled: Chilean Women and the Pinochet
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Bernstein, Hilda No.46~ Steve Biko Steve Biko was the 46th person to die
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Campbell, Horace Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney
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Castro, Fidel The World Crisis: Its Economic and Social Impact on the
Underdeveloped Countries
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Cockburn, Patrick Getting Russia Wrong: The End of Kremlinology Chronicles
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Davis, Flora Moving the Mountain: The Women's Movement in America Since
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Hull, Jeremy Natives in a Class Society Fourth printing of 1988 from One
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Jones, Lynne States of Change: A Central European Diary, Autumn 1989 An
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Lockhart, R.H. Bruce Memoirs of a British Agent: Being an Account of the
Author's Early Life in Many Lands and of His Official Mission to Moscow
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Lord, John Beacon Lights of History, Volume 5: Great Women Begins with
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Lottman, Herbert The Left Bank History of a cultural enclave that saw
culture and especially its own culture as intrinsically superior to any
mere civilization. Subtitled, Writers, Artists and Politics from the Popular
Front to the Cold War. Paper edition from Halo Books of San Francisco
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Mosley, Leonard On Borrowed Time: How World War II Began Random House
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.Raymond, Janice G. Women As Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the
Battle over Women's Freedom First edition from HarperSanFrancisco of 1993.
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Sedgwick, Peter Psycho Politics: Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and the
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Seidman, Ann The Roots of Crisis in Southern Africa A basic primer in
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Toynbee, Arnold A Study in History, Volume 7A: Universal States What the
dominant minority of a state constructs in order to prevent its own disintegration.
5.5 x 8, 379 pp. from Oxford University Press New York of 1963. Scuffed
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Turok, Ben, editor Witness from the Frontline: Aggression and Resistance
in Southern Africa Published by the Institute For Afrian Alternatives
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