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1) The target
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel. Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are...
6) The fever
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Suffering from fever while visiting a country with a repressive regime, a woman contemplates the privilege that she has enjoyed throughout her life and how it relates to the poverty and oppression of others.
Series
Social movements protest and contention volume 21
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Russian
Description
Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars as Colonel S. Kotov, a hero of the Revolution, who is spending the summer in the country with his young daughter (Mikhalkov's real-life daughter), his wife and her eccentric family. But when his wife's childhood love suddenly appears, the idyllic summer day takes a surprising turn. A lyrical film filled with beauty and warmth, it is also an indelible account of a man dedicated to family and fatherland, cruelly destroyed...
Publisher
World Peace Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Identifies and characterizes the most repressive states and singles out which are aggressive. Defines the actions constituting repression and proposes a method of measuring human rights violations, presenting an index of nation-state repressiveness. Offers a way to decide which repressive and rogue states are most deserving of strong policy attention"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication volume 555
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.