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Author
Publisher
Wooden Shore, L.L.C
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Eugenics (human ecology) has always understood itself to be part of the struggle for human rights-- those of future generations. John Glad lays out the eugenic thrust of traditional Jewish culture and shows how Zionism itself was conceived as a grand eugenic plan. --From publisher's description.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated,...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful look at the non-scientific history of "race science," and the assumptions, prejudices, and incentives that have allowed it to reemerge in contemporary science Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instlalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of this early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying...
Author
Series
American crossroads volume 17
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
10) Shutter Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics looms large today as the advances in genetics in the last thirty years have brought the idea of population purification back...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Description
It has been nearly seventy years since Hitler's armies won the war, and sixteen-year-old Zara St. James lives in the Shenandoah hills, part of the Eastern American Territories, under the rule of the Nazis--but a resistance movement is growing, and Zara, who dreams of freedom, may be the key to its success.
20) Blood mountain
Author
Publisher
BooksbyAFoster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Houston Hawks was a young girl, a lone survivor on the trail west. She is found by Tall Feather. He is the fierce, intelligent medicine man for the people. He brings her home and makes Sarah his own daughter. She becomes Aponi. The problem is that her remaining rich and powerful family back east wants her returned... at all costs."--Back cover.