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Unreconciled

Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

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Unreconciled

Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read." —Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian and Sufferance A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and Indigenous peoples and the power of narrative to emphasize truth over comfort. Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples. Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian--a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed Wente's understanding of what it means to be a modern Indigenous person in a society still overwhelmingly colonial in its attitudes and institutions. As the child of an American father and an Anishinaabe mother, Wente grew up in Toronto with frequent visits to the reserve where his maternal relations lived. By exploring his family's history, including his grandmother's experience in residential school, and citing his own frequent incidents of racial profiling by police who'd stop him on the streets, Wente unpacks the discrepancies between his personal identity and how non-Indigenous people view him. Wente analyzes and gives voice to the differences between Hollywood portrayals of Indigenous peoples and lived culture. Through the lens of art, pop culture, and personal stories, and with disarming humour, he links his love of baseball and movies to such issues as cultural appropriation, Indigenous representation and identity, and Indigenous narrative sovereignty. Indeed, he argues that storytelling in all its forms is one of Indigenous peoples' best weapons in the fight to reclaim their rightful place. Wente explores and exposes the lies that Canada tells itself, unravels "the two founding nations" myth, and insists that the notion of "reconciliation" is not a realistic path forward. Peace between First Nations and the state of Canada can't be recovered through reconciliation--because no such relationship ever existed.

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0735235740

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Unreconciled

Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

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Researches into the History of the British Dog: From Ancient Laws, Charters, and historical Records

Vol. II

By: George R. Jesse

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Researches into the History of the British Dog: From Ancient Laws, Charters, and historical Records

Vol. II

By: George R. Jesse

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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458

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BoD – Books on Demand

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375256086X

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9783752560862

The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction

By: Jesse Gellrich

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction

By: Jesse Gellrich

This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.

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407

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Cornell University Press

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1501740725

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Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

By: Jesse M. Gellrich

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Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry

By: Jesse M. Gellrich

This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literacy than previously supposed. In contrast to the view of orality and literacy as opposing forces, the book maintains that the power of language consists in displacement, the capacity of one channel of language to take the place of the other, to make the source disappear into the copy. Appreciating the interplay between oral and written language makes possible for the first time a way of understanding the high literate achievements of this century in relation to momentous developments in social and political life. Part I reasseses the "nominalism" of Ockham and the "realism" of Wyclif through discussions of their major treatises on language and government. Part II argues that the chronicle histories of this century are tied specifically to oral customs, and Part III shows how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's Knight's Tale confront outright the displacement of language and dominion. Informed by recent discussions in critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, the book offers a new synoptic view of fourteenth-century culture. As a critique of the social context of medieval literacy, it speaks directly to postmodern debate about the politics of historicism today.

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Princeton University Press

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1400821665

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If It Takes a Thousand Years

From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them

By: Jesse Petrilla

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If It Takes a Thousand Years

From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them

By: Jesse Petrilla

During an interrogation in Afghanistan, when asked how long the jihadists intended to fight, a Taliban commander uttered the words, “If it takes a thousand years.” This chilling statement illustrates both how terrorists of this level operate and the generational approach they take when it comes to bringing destruction to the world. The West is facing a determined enemy with a fundamentally different world view. Author and former Army Captain Jesse Petrilla provides unique insight into the jihadist mind, featuring interviews with Taliban and Al-Qaeda members just after their capture, interviews with international journalists and professors, warnings from European politicians, as well as experiences from travels throughout the Islamic world. If It Takes a Thousand Years delves into the policies which have enabled our enemies both at home and abroad, providing positive solutions as to how America and the West can confront this threat and protect their way of life.

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Bombardier Books

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9798888456132

Teach Yourself ANSI C++ in 21 Days

By: Jesse Liberty,J. Mark Hord

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Teach Yourself ANSI C++ in 21 Days

By: Jesse Liberty,J. Mark Hord

No matter what compiler is used, this book teaches C++. It is a 21 day tutorial on learning one of the most popular programming languages today. This text includes a Q&A section, a Do's and don'ts section, workshop sections, shaded syntax boxes that provide handy reference with short examples, and Type/Output/Analysis icons to disect code for more thorouth explanation.

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886

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Sams

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0672308878

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9780672308871

Quotations of Chairman Jesse

By: Jesse Ventura,Myron Rupp

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Quotations of Chairman Jesse

By: Jesse Ventura,Myron Rupp

This pocket-sized book of quotations from Jesse Ventura, the colorful pro-wrestler-turned-governor of Minnesota, sculpts a telling image of the man considered the people's politician. Readers get a deeper understanding of the magnetism of the man, with quotes arranged thematically by political and social issues.

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1886913390

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Researches into the History of the British Dog: From Ancient Laws, Charters, and historical Records

Researches into the History of the British Dog: From Ancient Laws, Charters, and historical Records

The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century

If It Takes a Thousand Years

If It Takes a Thousand Years

Teach Yourself ANSI C++ in 21 Days

Teach Yourself ANSI C++ in 21 Days

Quotations of Chairman Jesse

Quotations of Chairman Jesse

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