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Tribal Alphabet

Author: Nan Richardson
Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Keywords: alphabet, tribal
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1884167713
ISBN-13: 9781884167713

In bold and vibrant colors, artist Claudia Pearson has created a dazzling group portrait of the world of indigenous peoples. Aimed at a young reader audience (ages three to eight), the page text is simple, direct, and informative, while the glossary in the back of the book provides valuable in-depth information for parents and older readers. A percentage of the profits of this book will be given to the not-for-profit foundation Cultural Survival, to aid in its efforts to defend the rights of indigenous people around the world.Claudia Pearson is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer, typographer, a

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Havana: The Revolutionary Moment

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Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Keywords: moment, revolutionary, havana
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1884167098
ISBN-13: 9781884167096

This unique collection of never-before-seen photographs by veteran Magnum photographer Burt Glinn records Fidel Castro’s historic entry into Havana four decades ago. In the introductory memoir, Glinn describes the combination of chutzpah and journalistic prescience that led him to leave a New York party and hop a plane to Havana on New Year’s Eve, 1959. The photographs he returned with - of Fidel thronged by his countrymen and women as he stops to encourage them along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women taking up arms in the streets - are full of th

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Decir la Verdad al Poder

Author: Kerry Kennedy
Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Keywords: poder, verdad, decir
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1884167373
ISBN-13: 9781884167379

Decir la Verdad al Poder presents heroes from over 36 countries, including Baltasar Garzón, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Asma Jahangir, and Wangari Maathai. In searing and uplifting interviews, human rights defender Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, examines the quality of courage with people who are dramatically changing the course of events in their communities and countries. Decir la Verdad al Poder takes the reader to the frontlines and explores the issues that compel these human rights defenders: from free expression to religious self-determination, from minority rights to e

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Eclipse

Author: Zalmai
Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Keywords: eclipse
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-04
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1884167136
ISBN-13: 9781884167133

Zalmai’s extraordinary and unforgettable photographs capture the slow, distressing drift of exile and dispossession: spectral figures against a stormy ski; a sheared row of peaks frame a figure like a sacred relic; horizons of men, both of this world and of some timeless land. This is a documentation of a journey through ambiguous territories - from Cuba to India, Mali to the Philippines, Indonesia to Egypt, and return to Zalmai’s native Afghanistan - a search for place when one’s own land has been destroyed. The changing interplay of composition, light, and faces infuses t

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The Innocents

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Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Keywords: innocents
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2003-06
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1884167187
ISBN-13: 9781884167188

These are the faces and voices of the wrongfully convicted. These are the stories of people imprisoned for years before finally proving their innocence. This collection of photographs and interviews with the wrongfully convicted are gathered from across the United States. They expose a broken judicial system where corrupt prosecutors, sleeping lawyers, bent cops, and jailhouse snitches subvert the most fundamental principles of justice.