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A hand in the darkness : the autobiography of a refusenik / by Nudel, Ida.(CARDINAL)512476;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Nudel, Ida.; Jews; Refuseniks;
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Fear no evil : the classic memoir of one man's triumph over a police state / by Sharansky, Natan,1948-(CARDINAL)505607; Hoffman, Stefani.;
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Subjects: Autobiographies.; Sharansky, Natan, 1948-; Jews; Refuseniks; Political prisoners; Civil rights;
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The gates of November : chronicles of the Slepak family / by Potok, Chaim.(CARDINAL)125410;
MARCIVE 12/19/07Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249).
Subjects: Biographies.; Slepak family.; Slepak, Solomon, 1893-1978; Slepak, Vladimir, 1927-; Slepak, Mariya.; Jews; Jewish communists; Refuseniks;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Fear no evil / by Sharansky, Natan,1948-(CARDINAL)505607;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Sharansky, Natan, 1948-; Sharansky, Natan, 1948-; Jews; Refuseniks; Political prisoners; Civil rights;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 4
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The dissident / by Goldberg, Paul,1959-author.(CARDINAL)781988;
"A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel; he sits "in refusal" alongside his wife and their community of intellectuals, Jewish and not. But then the KGB spots Viktor leaving the murder scene. Plucked off the street, he's given a choice: find the real murderer or become the suspect of convenience. His deadline is nine days later, when Henry Kissinger is arriving in Moscow. Ax murders, it seems, aren't good for politics. A whip-smart, often hilarious Cold War thriller, Paul Goldberg's The Dissident explores what it means to survive in the face of impossible choices and monumental consequences. To solve the case, Viktor ropes in his community, which includes his banned-text-distributing wife, a hard-drinking sculptor, a Russian priest of Jewish heritage, and a visiting American intent on reliving World War II heroics. As Viktor struggles to figure out whom to trust, he's forced to question not only the KGB's murky motives but also those of his fellow refuseniks -- and the man he admires above all: the Secretary of State himself. Immersive, unpredictable, and always ax-sharp, The Dissident is Cold War intrigue at its most inventive: an uncompromising look at sacrifice, community, and the scars of history and identity, from an expert storyteller."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023; Murder; Jews; Refuseniks; Cold War;
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When they come for us, we'll be gone : the epic struggle to save Soviet Jewry / by Beckerman, Gal.(CARDINAL)500071;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 568-579) and index.Part I: After the thaw, 1963-1970 -- Beneath the earth, 1963-1966 -- "Failure may have become our habit," 1963-1964 -- A circumcision at the Dacha, 1966-1969 -- The overall orchestra, 1965-1969 -- "Escape, daughter of Zion dwelling in Babylon," 1969-1970 -- Part II: Their own détente, 1970-1980 -- Outrageous things, 1970-1972 -- Birth of the refusenik, 1970-1972 -- Linkage, 1972-1975 -- Politiki and kulturniki, 1975-1977 -- The shaming, 1977-1978 -- Trial and exile, 1977-1980 -- Part III: Slouching towards glasnost, 1981-1987 -- Hopelessness, 1981-1984 -- Pawns again, 1985-1986 -- "Mr. Gorbachev, let these people go!" 1986-1987 -- Afterword: Hundreds of thousands, 1988-1991.
Subjects: Jews; Jews; Jews; Jews; Refuseniks.;
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The nesting dolls : a novel / by Adams, Alina,author.(CARDINAL)432189;
"Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria - born Dvora Kaganovitch - has fulfilled her mother's dreams. But a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness... Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study mathematics. But the Soviets do not allow Jewish students - even those as brilliant as Natasha - to attend an institute as prestigious as Odessa University. With her hopes for the future dashed, Natasha must find a new purpose - one that leads her into the path of a dangerous young man... Brighton Beach, 2019. Zoe Venakovsky, known to her family as Zoya, has worked hard to leave the suffocating streets and small minds of Brighton Beach behind her - only to find that what she's tried to outrun might just hold her true happiness. Moving from a Siberian gulag to the underground world of Soviet refuseniks to oceanside Brooklyn, The Nesting Dolls is a heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive story of circumstance, choice, and consequence - and three dynamic unforgettable women, all who will face hardships that force them to compromise their dreams as they fight to fulfill their destinies."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Choices; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Wired for war : the robotics revolution and conflict in the twenty-first century / by Singer, P. W.(Peter Warren)(CARDINAL)541334;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-482) and index.Author's note : Why a book on robots and war? -- pt. 1. The change we are creating. -- Introduction : Scenes from a robot war -- Smart bombs, Norma Jeane, and defecating ducks : a short history of robotics -- Robotics for dummies -- To infinity and beyond : the power of exponential trends -- Coming soon to a battlefield near you : the next wave of warbots -- Always in the loop? : the arming and autonomy of robots -- Robotic gods : our machine creators -- What inspires them : science fiction's impact on science reality -- The refuseniks : the roboticists who just say no -- pt. 2. What change is creating for us. -- The big Cebrowski and the real RMA : thinking about revolutionary technologies -- "Advanced" warfare : how we might fight with robots -- Robots that don't like apple pi : how the U.S. could lose the unmanned revolution -- Open-source warfare : college kids, terrorists, and other new users of robots at war -- Losers and Luddites : the changing battlefields robots will fight on and the new electronic sparks of war -- The psychology of warbots -- YouTube war : the public and its unmanned wars -- Changing the experience of war and the warrior -- Command and control...alt-delete : new technologies and their effect on leadership -- Who let you in the war? : technology and the new demographics of conflict -- Digitizing the laws of war and other issues of (un)human rights -- A robot revolt? : talking about robot ethics -- Conclusion : The duality of robots and humans.A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself.
Subjects: Military art and science; Robotics; Military robots.; Military weapons.; Twenty-first century.; World politics;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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National identification systems : essays in opposition / by McElroy, Wendy.(CARDINAL)524046; Watner, Carl.(CARDINAL)726119;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface / Carl Watner -- pt. I. A history of government ID and citizen-tracking. Men ahead of their times / Jeremy Bentham, Luis Reyna Almandos ; Government surnames and legal identities / James C. Scott, John Tehranian, Jeremy Mathias ; Genocide and group classification on national ID cards / Jim Fussell ; The compulsory birth and death certificate in the United States / Carl Watner ; A national fingerprint system for the United States / Pamela Sankar ; Drivers licenses and vehicle registration in historical perspective / Carl Watner ; The Russian card: the propiska / Nicolas Werth ; Population registers in the Netherlands during World War II / Bob Moore ; The English identity cards / C.H. Rolph ; A history of the census / Carl Watner -- pt. II. Contemporary issues. Systematic federal surveillance of ordinary Americans / Charlotte Twight ; National ID: our line in the sand / Claire Wolfe ; The Australia card: campaign of opposition / Simon Davies ; The Social Security Number in America: 1935-2000 / Robert Ellis Smith ; My national I.D. card is a threat to your civil liberties / Gregory Dicum ; How computers are a menace to liberty / Hans Sherrer ; Why I oppose government enumeration / Carl Watner -- pt. III. The future and resistance. Gandhi's story in South Africa / Calvin Kytle ; Give me liberty / Rose Wilder Lane ; Resist enumeration / Scott McDonald ; National I.D. for all public servants / Patricia Neill ; An American refusenik / Claire Wolfe ; Red tape ; Why I refuse to be numbered ; Slavery and national ID / Carl Watner ; ID without big brother / Sunni Maravillosa ; Epilogue: national ID and the police state / Claire Wolfe, Aaron Zelman.
Subjects: Identification cards.; Identification cards; Identification numbers, Personal.; Identification numbers, Personal; Liberty.; Privacy, Right of.; Privacy, Right of; Public records.; Public records;
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Atomic Anna [audio-enabled device] by Barenbaum, Rachelauthor.(CARDINAL)784314; Johnson, Zacharynarrator.; Lawrence, Emilynarrator.; Naudus, Natalienarrator.; Odeom, Tracinarrator.; Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Digital Audio.(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by Traci Odom, Natalie Naudus, Zachary Johnson, and Emily Lawrence.Three brilliant women.Two life-changing mistakes.One chance to reset the future. In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist, Anna Berkova, is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyls reactor melts down. Its the exact moment she tears through time--and its an accident. When she opens her eyes, shes landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Mollys daughter Raisa, and put their familys future on a better path. In '60s Philadelphia, Molly is coming of age as an adopted refusenik. Her family is full of secrets and a past they wont share. She finds solace in comic books, drawing her own series, Atomic Anna, and shes determined to make it as an artist. When she meets the volatile, charismatic Viktor, their romance sets her life on a very different course. In the '80s, Raisa, is a lonely teen and math prodigy, until a quiet, handsome boy moves in across the street and an odd old woman shows up claiming to be her biological grandmother. As Raisa finds new issues of Atomic Anna in unexpected places, she notices each comic challenges her to solve equations leading to one impossible conclusion: time travel. And she finally understands what she has to do. As these remarkable women work together to prevent the greatest nuclear disaster of the 20th century, they grapple with the power their discoveries hold. Just because you can change the past, does it mean you should?--Provided by publisher.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Science fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Grandparent and child; Mothers and daughters; Nuclear energy; Time travel; Women;
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