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Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides. Though it seems counterintuitive, the philanthropic industry has evolved to mirror colonial structures and reproduces hierarchy, ultimately doing more harm...
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English
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Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
"This book articulates the church's responsibility for the deep racial brokenness at the heart of American culture, investigates the Bible's call to make restitution, and offers concrete examples of the work of reparation at the local level"--
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Publisher
St. Martins Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Calliope Worthington seeks shelter in a seemingly abandoned mansion, the house's reclusive owner, Ren Porter, taking her for a thief, forces her to marry him and demands a night of passion for each of the pearls he claims she stole.
5) Descolonizando la riqueza: la sabiduría indígene para sanar las divisiones y restaurar el equilibrio
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what's at stake...
Publisher
SK Enterprises Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is the unusual story of a beautiful elegant woman Maria Altmann, and her incredible courage and tenacity to reclaim 5 Klimt paintings from the Austrian government, which were stolen by the Nazis from her family. A David and Goliath tale that takes her from the glittering world of fin-de-siecle Vienna through Nazi terror in Europe to the United States Supreme Court. And after 60 years of state deception she won! Austria finally returned the paintings...
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Publisher
House of Songhay II
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Reparations on Fire describes history-in-the-making. It combines a historical survey and commentary on the Reparations Movement in America while addressing how pioneering reparations legislation is being born and debated in city council chambers and statehouses nationwide. It is part historical analysis, part revolutionary manifesto, and part political red-alert. Reparations on Fire brings additional value to the Reparations Movement as it goes about...
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