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018369
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Pennsylvania, Mason Crest Publishers, 2003.
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32pPurple Spine
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Great Names
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A biography of Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual and political leader of Tibet, who has lived in exile in India since 1959, when communist China took over his nation.
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1590841514 Hb.
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000858
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Great Britain, Hodder Wayland, 2003.
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47pBrown spine
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Days That Shook The World
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Biographical account of the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and the consequent political events of the republic of South Africa which led to the collapse of apartheid.
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The last day of captivity
Who is Nelson Mandela
The white invasion
Second-class citizens
Black protest
Life under apartheid
Defiance and violence
United we stand
The price of freedom
The battle cry
The Rivonia trial
Life in prison
Bloodshed and suffering
Freedom for all South Africans
11 February 1990: 'Long walk to freedom'
11 February 1990: The path to racial harmony
Ambassador for peace
President of South Africa
South Africa today
Glossary, further information
Timeline
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0750244097 Hb.
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| 000143 | 921/MAN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017955
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New York, StarWalk KidsMedia, 2014.
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36pGrey Spine
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A children's biography of the Pakistani girl who is short-listed for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Let us pick up our books and pens. One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.”
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9781630833169 Pb.
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| 017219 | 921/YOU | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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007387
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USA, Dk Publishing Inc, 2008.
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126pWhite Spine
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DK Biography
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A biographical representation of Marie Curie, one of history's greatest scientists, who discovered the incredible secrets of radioactivity.
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The joy of discovery
A child of Poland
Dedicated students
Paris, at last
Science at the end of the 19th century
Pierre
The search for a search
Nature doesn't lie
Rewards and outcomes
Devastation
Life goes on
War and the Little Curies
A trip to America
Marie Curie's legacy
Timeline
Bibliography
For further study
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9780756638313 Pb.
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| 007784 | 921/CUR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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006030
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Great Britain, Heinemann Library, 2000.
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56pBlack Spine
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Heinemann Profiles
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Describes the life story of Mother Teresa, who inspired many people and demonstrated a way of using the power of love as a force for healing and redemption.
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What was Mother Teresa?
Balkan Beginnings
In and Out of Church
Into India
Missionaries of Charity
Problems in the Nineties
Mother Teresa-Timeline
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043108632X hb.
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| 005991 | 921/TER | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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007385
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USA, Dk Publishing Inc, 2006.
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128pBlack and White Spine
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DK Biography
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A biographical representation of Nelson Mandela, who served as South Africa's first black president, and became one of the world's most inspirational champions of human rights.
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A troublemaker is born
Growing up
Joining the fight
Working for unity
Acts of defiance
The revolutionary and the lawyer
Treason?
The Black Pimpernel
Life on the island
The University
Free Mandela!
Retreat through a Silver Bridge
Free at last
President Mandela
Epilogue
Timeline
For further study
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0756621097 Pb.
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| 007786 | 921/MAN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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007970
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2008
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India, Three Ess Publications, 2007.
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310pBlack Spine
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The collection contains information on peace movements, both historical and current; leaders of nonviolence; and Nobel Peace Prize winners. In addition, there is information on nonviolent solutions to conflict as well as information on inspirational leaders dedicated to improving the lives of people through economic and social change.
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1901 Henry Dunant
1901 Frederic Passy
1902 Elie Ducommum
1902 Albert Gobat
1903 Randal Cremer
1904 Institute of International law
1905 Bertha on Suttner
1906 Theodore Roosevelt
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
1907 Louis Renault
1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson
1908 Fredrik Bajer
1909 Auguste Beernaert
1909 Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
1910 The International Peace Bureau
1911 Tobias Asser
1911 Alfred Fried
1912 Elihu Root
1913 Henri La Fontaine
1917 International Committee of the Red Cross
1919 Woodrow Wilson
1920 Leon Bourgeois
1921 Hjalmar Branting
1921 Christian Lange
1922 Fridtjof Nansen
1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain
1925 Charles G.Dawes
1926 Aristide Briand
1926 Gustav Stresemann
1927 Ferdinand Buisson
1927 Ludwig Quidde
1929 Frank b.Kellogg
1930 Nathan Soderblom
1931 Jane Addams
1931 Nicholas Murray Butler
1933 Sir Norman Angell
1934 Arthur Henderson
1935 Carl von Ossietzky
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1937 Robert Cecil
1938 Nansen International office for refugees
1944 International Committee of the Red Cross
1945 Cordell Hull
1946 Emily Greene Balch
1946 John R.Mott
1947 Friends Service Council
1947 American friends service committee
1949 Lord Boyd Orr
1950 Ralph Bunche
1951 Leon Jouhaux
1952 Albert Schweitzer
1953 George C.Marshall
1954 United States High Commissioner for refugees
1957 Lester Bowles Pearson
1958 Georges Pire
1959 Philip Noel-Baker
1960 Albert Lutuli
1961 Dag Hammarskjold
1962 Linus Pauling
1963 International Committee of the Red Cross
1963 League of Red Cross Societies
1964 Martin Luther King
1965 United Nations Children's Fund
1968 Rene Cassin
1969 International Labour Organization
1970 Norman Borlaug
1971 Willy Brandt
1973 Henry Kissinger
1973 Le Duc Tho
1974 Sean Macbride
1974 Eisaku Sato
1975 Andrei Sakharov
1976 Mairead Corrigan
1976 Betty Williams
1977 Amnesty International
1978 Menachem Begin
1978 Anwar al-Sadat
1979 Mother Teresa
1980 Adolfo Perez Esquivel
1981 United Nations high Commissioner
1982 Alva Myrdal
1982 Alfonso Garcia Robles
1983 Lech Walesa
1984 Desmond Tutu
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of nuclear war
1986 Elie Wiesel
1987 Oscar Arias Sanchez
1988 United Nations Peace Keeping Forces
1989 The 14th Dalai lama
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi
1992 Rigoberta Menchu Tum
1993 F.W. de Klerk
1993 Nelson Mandela
1994 Yasser Arafat
1994 Shimon Peres
1994 Yitzhak Rabin
1995 Joseph Rotblat
1995 Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1996 Jose Ramos-Horta
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines
1997 Jody Williams
1998 David Trimble
1998 John Hume
1999 Medecins Sans Frontieres
2000 Kim Dae-jung
2001 United Nations
2001 Kofi Annan
2002 Jimmy Carter
2003 Shirin Ebadi
2004 Wangari Maathai
2005 International Atomic Energy Agency
2005 Mohamed Elbaradei
2006 Muhammad Yunus
2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007 Albert Arnold
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9788190461139 Pb.
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ID:
007198
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Great Britain, Heinemann Library, 2002.
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64pCream Spine
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Leading Lives
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A biography of the Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, who is a Nobel Prize winner. Involved in his country's Six Day War, which led to Israeli occupation of the Gaza strip, exiled later to Lebanon and greatly successful with international diplomacy through the United Nations.
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Into the spotlight
Childhood and youth
Student: Map showing the partition of Palestine
Fatah
Guerrilla hero: Map showing areas taken over by Israel in the Six Day War
Lebanon
Exile in Tunis
Intifada
Desperate measures
Homeland
Legacy
Timeline
Key people of Arafat's time
Further reading
Glossary
Index
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0431138656 Hb.
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| 007642 | 921/ARA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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