Free the Animals 20th Anniversary Edition: The Amazing True Story of the Animal Liberation Front

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Free the Animals 20th Anniversary Edition: The Amazing True Story of the Animal Liberation Front

The shattering account of one woman's struggle against the forces supporting the abuse of animals, Free the Animals is the best-selling and action-packed story of underground adventure, as well as an eloquent plea for the rights of nonhuman animals. Free the Animals, with an introduction by Chrissie Hynde, is the story of Valerie, a 23-year-old police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland, whose world was turned upside down when she learned about the abuses of animals in laboratories. The book describes how this law-abiding woman came to challenge the system by taking direct action and examines why ordinary people are moved to do extraordinary things on behalf of animals.

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Author: Ingrid Newkirk

Publisher: Lantern Books

Rating: 4.20

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Robert Cormier: Daring to Disturb the Universe

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Robert Cormier: Daring to Disturb the Universe

Beginning with the publication of The Chocolate War in 1974, and continuing throughout the entirety of his career, Robert Cormier dared to disturb the universe. The moment Jerry Renault refused to sell his first chocolate bar Robert Cormier began a life-long career that would push the boundaries of traditional young adult literature. He would go on to prove again and again that a YA novel could be both realistic and unflinchingly honest. And that fiction for teens could be great literature.

In this book YA librarian and Cormier biographer Patty Campbell explores each of Cormier's books for young readers. From the boundary breaking modern classic The Chocolate War and the award-winning I Am the Cheese, to the tender Frenchtown Summer and the shocking and disturbing Tenderness, Campbell's literary analysis illuminates why Robert Cormier has been called the single most important writer in young adult literature. And how his work has touched generations of young readers' hearts and minds, daring them again and again to disturb their own universe.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

ISBN: 0385730462

Author: Patty Campbell

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Rating: 3.95

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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

"This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades."

-Philosophical Quarterly

ISBN: 052109626X

Author: John Rogers Searle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Rating: 3.78

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Teaching the Selected Works of Robert Cormier

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Teaching the Selected Works of Robert Cormier

Robert Cormier's works are read and enjoyed by countless young adults. He is widely considered the most important young adult novelist, a creator of fully realized, memorable characters whose worlds reflect the issues and thought-provoking themes important to everyone, but especially adolescents. In "Teaching the Selected Works of Robert Cormier" noted young adult literature advocate and teacher Virginia Monseau helps you bring the works of this masterful writer into your classroom. "Teaching the Selected Works of Robert Cormier" draws on the experiences of two high school teachers and a middle school teacher who use Cormier's novels in their English classes. It offers classroom-tested ideas, lessons, and assignments that enrich the study of his works and encourage their inclusion in the curriculum, as well as samples of student writing and artwork created in response to his books. In addition, where previous publications have dealt almost exclusively with Cormier's earlier books, Monseau instead focuses on his powerful but less frequently taught works, including: "Tunes for Bears to Dance To" "Heroes" "The Rag and Bone Shop" "Frenchtown Summer." Monseau also offers practical advice on teaching Cormier's famed "After the First Death," focusing on both its timeless appeal and its currency and relevancy to young adult readers. Show your middle and high school readers the beauty and poignancy of Robert Cormier's writing. Pick up "Teaching the Selected Works of Robert Cormier "and find out how you and your students can together approach his work in a new, more responsive way. You'll not only renew your own sense of the value of young adult literature in the curriculum but you'll also rediscover for yourself why Cormier remains one of the most important and most-loved writers among both adolescents and their teachers. "Teaching the Selected Works of Robert Cormier "is part of Heinemann's Young Adult Novels in the Classroom series. Edited by Virginia Monseau, the series offers entry points, insights, and strategies for teaching the works of noted young adult authors, including Robert Cormier and Mildred D. Taylor with forthcoming books on Katherine Patterson, Walter Dean Myers, Gary Paulsen, and Chris Crutcher.

ISBN: 0325007454

Author: Virginia R. Monseau

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Rating: 4.00

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Andrew Lost In the Jungle (Andrew Lost, #15)

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Andrew Lost In the Jungle (Andrew Lost, #15)

Andrew, Judy, and Thudd have landed in the Australian rain forest. They must find a way to the river and Uncle Al, but they're still the size of bugs! They dodge rhinoceros beetles and tree kangaroos, dangle dangerously above the jaws of a carnivorous plant, and have a close encounter with a carpet python. Will they ever reach Uncle Al? Or will they be shrunken Down Under for good?

ISBN: 0375835644

Author: J.C. Greenburg

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Rating: 3.96

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Old Man s War (Old Man s War, #1)

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Old Man s War (Old Man s War, #1)

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.

The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.

John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger.

ISBN: 0765348276

Author: John Scalzi

Publisher: Tor Books

Rating: 4.22

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Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America s Media

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Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America s Media

A groundbreaking investigative work by a critically acclaimed sociologist on the corporate takeover of local news and what it means for all Americans


For the residents of Minot, North Dakota, Clear Channel Communications is synonymous with disaster. Early in the morning of January 18, 2002, a train derailment sent a cloud of poisonous gas drifting toward the small town. Minot's fire and rescue departments attempted to reach Clear Channel, which owned and operated all six local commercial radio stations, to warn residents of the approaching threat. But in the age of canned programming and virtual DJs, there was no one in the conglomerate's studio to take the call. The people of Minot were taken unawares. The result: one death and more than a thousand injuries.


Opening with the story of the Minot tragedy, Eric Klinenberg's Fighting for Air takes us into the world of preprogrammed radio shows, empty television news stations, and copycat newspapers to show how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural life. Klinenberg argues that the demise of truly local media stems from the federal government's malign neglect, as the agencies charged with ensuring diversity and open competition have ceded control to the very conglomerates that consistently undermine these values and goals.


Such "big media" may not be here to stay, however. Fighting for Air delivers a call to action, revealing a rising generation of new media activists and citizen journalists--a coalition of liberals and conservatives--who are demanding and even creating the local coverage they need and deserve.

ISBN: 0805078193

Author: Eric Klinenberg

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Rating: 3.79

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