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Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins Of...

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by Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate (Translator)

The author argues that the roots of the Holocaust are found in the European scramble for Africa in the late 19th century. He singles out British imperialism for particular criticism, and he contends that the theories of Charles Darwin were used to justify British racism towards Africans.

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The brothers Lionheart

The brothers Lionheart more books like this

by Astrid Lindgren, Joan Tate

Two brothers share many adventures after their death when they are reunited in Nangiyala, the land where sagas come from.

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The Magic Lantern: 2an Autobiography more books like this

by Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate (Translator)

A riveting life story and a remarkable literary achievement, The Magic Lantern documents a turbulent career and a fiercely uncompromising personality. Bergman was the creator of such spellbinding films as Smiles of a Summer Night, Persona, and Scenes from a Marriage. 16 pages of photos.

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Psalm at Journey's End

Psalm at Journey's End more books like this

by Erik Fosnes Hansen, Joan Tate (Translator)

This novel about the band members that played aboard the Titanic tells their stories as the luxury liner approaches its tragic fate.

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Leading by Design: The IKEA Story

Leading by Design: The IKEA Story more books like this

by Bertil Torekull (Preface by), Joan Tate (Translator), Ingvar Kamprad

The inside story of the visionary concepts and innovative strategies that transformed a small mail-order company into the worldwide furniture giant IKEA, as told by its legendary founder.

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Desert Divers

Desert Divers more books like this

by Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate (Translator)

Desert Divers is, by turns, a travel book, confessional narrative, and history of French colonialism in North Africa. Following in the steps of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Andre Gide, Sven Lindqvist dives into his own dreams and past while exploring the dark side of history -- the colonial slaughter and sexual exploitation that allowed Europeans ...

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Sunday's Children

Sunday's Children more books like this

by Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate (Translator)

Children born on Sunday are said to have special gifts of clairvoyance, including the ability to see goblins and ghosts and to foretell the future. In Bergman's touching and affecting story, young Pu, a "Sunday's child", must come to terms with a collapsing world, as the father he idolizes leaves the family.

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Wild boy more books like this

by Joan Tate

Roberto's grandfather, alone in the desert without water, will die if Roberto doesn't reach him soon. Will the guard never fall asleep?

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Freezing down. more books like this

by Anders Bodelsen

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Under the Snow: A Novel by the Author of Blackwater

Under the Snow: A Novel by the Author of Blackwater more books like this

by Kerstin Ekman, Joan Tate (Translator)

From the acclaimed author of "Blackwater" comes another deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set in northern Sweden. When a man is murdered at a mah-jongg party turned sour, the local police constable receives conflicting reports as to the exact cause of the murder. Gradually, the facts of the case emerge under the relentless summer sun.

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The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism

The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism more books like this

by Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate (Translator)

An evocative, informative and thought-provoking study in the historical context of racism in the 18th and 19th centuries, told through detailed sketches of 22 men and women who led the fight against racial prejudice, and sometimes suffered for the cause.

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Wonderful Women by the Sea

Wonderful Women by the Sea more books like this

by Monika Fagerholm, Joan Tate (Translator)

Winner of major literary prizes in Sweden and Finland, this novel tells the story, from the perspective of the children involved, of two very different families who strike up a friendship during summers by the ocean.

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The Fifth ACT

The Fifth ACT more books like this

by Ingmar Bergman, Linda Haverty Rugg (Translator), Joan Tate (Translator)

Though Ingmar Bergman effectively retired from feature film making in 1982, he continued to be a prolific writer, both of stage plays (many of which he directed) and of screenplays for television and the movies (most of which were directed by others). This volume contains four such pieces including AFTER THE REHEARSAL and IN THE PRESENCE OF A ...

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Children's Island more books like this

by P C Jersild, Joan Tate (Translator), Ross Shideler (Afterword by)

First published in Sweden in 1976, "Children's Island" increased the popularity and critical acclaim of its author, P. C. Jersild. The novel, which has sold more than 400,000 copies in Sweden alone, has been translated into French, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian. A film was made out of it. The University of Nebraska Press is the first to make ...

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The Blue Mother more books like this

by Christer Kihlman, Joan Tate (Translator), Professor George C Schoolfield (Designer)

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The assignment more books like this

by Per Wahlöö, Joan Tate

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Luke's Garden; And, Gramp: Two Novels more books like this

by Joan Tate

In one short novel, a boy is destroyed because he is different; in the other, a boy finds a way to make his grandfather feel useful again.

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The debt more books like this

by Olle E. Högstrand

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House of Babel more books like this

by P C Jersild, Joan Tate (Translator), Leif Sjoberg (Designer)

"In House of Babel" ("Babels Hus"), the experience of a heart attack victim illustrates the depersonalization and outrageous cost of medical treatment today. Formerly a doctor, P.C. Jersild brings a powerful realism to his picture of a modern hospital. His literary gifts are apparent in a narrative that maintains dramatic intensity while it ...

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Tina and David more books like this

by Joan Tate

At age ten David and Tina communicated through notes. Meeting again, at age eighteen, they find that writing notes is still the most comfortable form of communication.

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Plant communities more books like this

by Francis Rose, Susanne Larsen, Joan Tate

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A Christmas Book more books like this

by Joan Tate (Translator), Otto S. Svend, Peter Faber

Describes in text and illustrations the preparations for and the celebration of Christmas in nineteenth-century Denmark.

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Children of the Yangtze River more books like this

by Joan Tate (Translator), Otto S Svend (Illustrator)

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Ben and Annie more books like this

by Joan Tate

An eleven year-old-boy befriends the crippled girl living downstairs but an unforeseen turn of events break up their friendship.

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Sam & me. more books like this

by Joan Tate

Thinking her husband has rejected her when he tells her to think for herself, Jo steals a baby to care for and to have dependent upon her.

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