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Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The American Indian Movement, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, burst into that turbulent time with passion, anger, and radical acts of resistance. Spurred by the Civil Rights movement, Native people began to protest the decades--centuries--of corruption, racism, and abuse they had endured, [arguing] for political, social, and cultural change"--Page 4 of cover.
"The photographs of activist Dick Bancroft, a key documentarian of AIM, provide a stunningly...
Series
Publisher
Oxmoor House
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
The very best recipes from the highly acclaimed Williams-Sonoma Savoring series, collected in new volumes. Offering more than 125 recipes from around the world, 'Savoring Pasta & Rice' includes such comforting dishes as American old-fashioned macaroni and cheese and hearty Italian minestrone and pappardelle with sausage. You'll discover classic Spanish paella, creamy Tuscan risotto with artichokes, garlicky Shanghai noodles, savory Thai fried rice...
566) Yellow pack
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Launchpad Pre-K Academy gives preschool-aged children 5 different paths to explore on their way to kindergarten. Using this Academy can help little learners develop the skills needed to enter their first year of school and inspire them to try new things with confidence. Organize thoughts; Problem solve through reasoning; Express emotions & needs; Explores independence."--
Focusing on skills children will need outside the classroom, this collection...
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Why do people love ghost stories, even if they don't believe (or say they don't believe) in ghosts? Is it simply the adrenaline rush that comes from being mesmerized and terrified by a great storyteller, or do these tales yield deeper meanings--telling us things about our own inner shadows? Stephen Johnson brings together some of the most memorable encounters with ghosts in world literature, from Europe, Russia, the United States, and China. Recurring...
568) Sing, I: a novel
Author
Publisher
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from award-wining author Ethel Rohan"--
"Inside Half Moon Bay, a sparkling California coastal town, Ester Prynn is dulled and diminished by struggles with work, money, marriage, her senile father, a troubled teenage son, and old guilt she can't assuage. When a masked gunman robs the convenience store where Ester works, he upends her fraught life and propels her toward passions buried, like singing; desires discovered, like a same-sex...
570) Revolutionary wealth
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. This book is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But 21st-century wealth, they argue, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. They write about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A career-spanning volume from one of our most valuable living American poets, offering poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable possibilities of language. David Young's settings are at once local and universal, an adolescence in Omaha, late summer on Lake Erie, a sleepless night in the backyard during a meteor shower. He moves with dazzling ease between culture and nature,...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
In 1831, an unknown, horrifying, and deadly disease from Asia swept across continental Europe and North America, killing millions and throwing the medical profession into confusion. A killer with little respect for class or wealth, cholera ravaged the squalid streets of Soho and rocked the great centers of Victorian power. In this gripping book, Sandra Hempel tells the story of John Snow, a reclusive doctor without money or social position, who -...
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Plagues and pandemics are a part of global history, from the biblical 'plague of locusts' to today's COVID-19 pandemic. Dealing with unchecked diseases and disasters has given rise to great human suffering and loss of life, but it has also played a significant role in shaping our societies. Advances in public health, medicine, scientific research, and even the arts have often been inspired by or required of those who have survived. This two-volume...
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