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The Hideout
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The HideoutThe Hideout

 A powerful and moving novel about one man's final, fatal, heroic act of resistance in Nazi France.
 
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African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
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African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices

African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women’s writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile.
 
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Tags: anthology, African, Resistance, women\'s, Women
The Legend of Leelanau
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The Legend of Leelanau

The young maiden Leelinau is forbidden from going into the Spirit Wood. But Leelinau so enjoys her time spent there with the Pukwudjinees (the tiny fairies of the forest) that she risks playing with them time and time again. The legend explores the resistance many of us harbor of entering adulthood.
 
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Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire-Not-To-Know in Classroom Teaching (Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation)
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Resistance to Learning: Overcoming the Desire-Not-To-Know in Classroom Teaching (Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation)

Taking on the challenge to teaching the "desire-not-to-know" presents, Alcorn examines qualities of student resistance to new and uncomfortable information and proposes methods for teachers and professors to work productively with such resistance.
Research in neuroscience, education, sociology, political science, and the humanities has contributed to a revisionary understanding of how emotion grounds human reason, interaction, and communication. Colleges and Universities produce and distribute information but do very little to ensure that information is effectively assimilated and employed as solutions to real problems.
 
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Tags: information, resistance, little, ensure, assimilated
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles (Audiobook)
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles (Audiobook)The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles (Audiobook)

In The War of Art, you'll gain the ability to break through blocks and win your inner creative battles. If you've ever dreamed about writing the great American novel or regret not finishing a painting, poem, or screenplay; starting a business or charity; even running a marathon, it will inspire you to identify, defeat, and overcome the obstacles that are standing in your way. The War of Art is a humorous, well-aimed kick in the pants guaranteed to galvanize every would-be artist, visionary, or entrepreneur.

REUPLOAD NEEDED

 
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