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By Martín Caparrós. 2021
"There is a certain region of the world in which twenty countries and more than 400 million people share a…
language, a history, a culture, concerns and hopes. We know it poorly; we know mostly its myths, its reflections, its commonplaces; we think of it as it was in other times. This region is called or could be called Ñamérica - and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is now. Martín Caparrós has been traveling through it for many years and has looked at it from all sides: from its big cities to its small towns, from its reggaeton to its economies, from its violence to its food, from its governments to its soccer, from its inequality to its insurrections, from its migrants to its books, from its defiant women to its corrupt politicians, from its new rich to its always poor, from its history to its diverse futures. With all this, Ñamérica assembles a fresco that shows us that Ñamérica is not what we thought it was. A mestizo book, a crossbreed of words, Ñamérica is, like The Hunger before it, a chronicle that thinks, an essay that tells, a great story assembled with that style that defines its author as one of the language's decisive storytellers." -- Translation provided by NLSBy David Graeber. 2022
"Two archaeologists explore reinterpretations of early societal development and reject the common understanding of early mankind as primitive and childlike.…
Drawing on new understanding and research, the authors theorize about what shape human society may have taken if not in bands of hunter-gatherers as long as previously assumed." -- Provided by NLSBy Herbert S Klein. 2019
"A comprehensive survey of Bolivia's economic, social, cultural, and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes…
to the present, A Concise History of Bolivia highlights fundamental changes since the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982 and its present day consequences. These changes include the introduction of universal education and the rise of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in the nation's history." -- GoodreadsBy Lauren Clark. 2014
This book introduces Coming to the Table's approach to a continuously evolving set of purposeful theories, ideas, experiments, guidelines, and…
intentions, all dedicated to facilitating racial healing and transformation. People of color, relative to white people, fall on the negative side of virtually all measurable social indicators. The "living wound" is seen in the significant disparities in average household wealth, unemployment and poverty rates, infant mortality rates, access to healthcare and life expectancy, education, housing, and treatment within, and by, the criminal justice system. Adult"This poetry anthology, edited by Miranda Paul, explores a wide range of ways to be grateful (from gratitude for a…
puppy to gratitude for family to gratitude for the sky) with poems by a diverse group of contributors, including Joseph Bruchac, Margarita Engle, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Waters, and Jane Yolen." -- Provided by publisherBy Timothy W Lake. 2015
"Hang on and Fly: A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival. Passenger planes are crashing three and…
four times a month in 1951 just as Americans are beginning to fly. Then, a loaded plane disappears in the night and can't be found. Panic and frustration reach all the way to the White House. Twenty-six are killed in the most spectacular crash that no one heard on a mountain frosted with snow and fog. Fourteen survivors are the largest group of plane crash victims to be lost and stranded in North America. The stewardess holds a baby in her arms until it dies. They huddle beneath a parachute tent, arguing over food and how to get out. One commits a dastardly criminal act upon the dead. When rescuers don't arrive after 40 hours, a hero passenger stumbles out of the snow-filled woods to find help from a farmer's wife with a secret deadly threat of her own. Distracted by blazing headlines, crash tourists, and a federal probe, simple farm families are intertwined with urban crash survivors leading up to more tragedy on the plane crash mountain. Hang on and Fly is a dramatic tale of the most incredible year of aviation disasters that made Americans plane crash jumpy. Passengers in rope seat belts are eaten by sharks; a pilot with heart disease flies into a hill; three crashes close a major airport; a lost pilot mistakes Lake Ontario for the Atlantic. It's the origin of our belief that we're safest in the back of the plane. It's the beginning of modern plane crash investigations, inspired Hollywood's airplane disaster movie genre, and caused safety regulations we all take for granted today. Journalist Tim Lake tells the gripping story of America's first budget airlines as only he can. His family was there." -- Provided by publisherBy Elisabeth Griffith. 2022
"The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number…
of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women, or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites. They wanted to protect their communities from racial violence and discrimination. Theirs was not only a women's movement. White women wanted to be equal to white men. They sought equal legal rights, political power, safeguards for working women and immigrants, and an end to confining social structures. There were also many white women who opposed any advance for any women. In this riveting narrative, Dr. Elisabeth Griffith integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality. Previously their parallel struggles for social justice have been presented separately-as white or Black topics-or covered narrowly, through only certain individuals, decades, or incidents. Formidable provides a sweeping, century-long perspective, and an expansive cast of change agents. From feminists and civil rights activists to politicians and social justice advocates, from working class women to mothers and homemakers, from radicals and conservatives to those who were offended by feminism, threatened by social change, or convinced of white supremacy, the diversity of the women's movement mirrors America. After that landmark victory in 1920, suffragists had a sense of optimism, declaring, "Now we can begin!" By 2020, a new generation knew how hard the fight for incremental change was; they would have to begin again. Both engaging and outraging, Formidable will propel readers to continue their foremothers' fights to achieve equality for all." -- Provided by publisherBy Dennis L Brewer. 1980
By Charles C Alexander. 1995
The author argues that in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas the primary reason for the growth of the Klan in…
the 1920s was the emphasis on the moral status quo. He chronicles how the Klan's night-riding vigilantism, political activism, charitable work, and other activities appealed to a disillusioned, post-World War middle-class society. Contains some violence. For adult readersThis study of general stores offers a social and cultural history of a region where the South and West overlapped.…
The author has combined store ledgers from the 1870s and 1880s and found in them the experiences of thousands of people in Texas and Indian Territory. Particularly revealing are her insights into the everyday lives of women, immigrants, and ethnic and racial minorities, especially African Americans and American Indians. 2013. AdultBy Serge Gruzinski. 2022
"The history of Mexico City is monumental, like Our Lady of Guadalupe that watches over the city. That's because time,…
people, and cultures have never stopped intermixing there. In the 1920s, as the first skyscrapers rose up, art, cinema and revolution rendezvoused in the city. Eisenstein discovered the land of Zapata and shared his passion in ¡Que viva México!. Trotsky took refuge in La Casa Azul where Frida Kahlo beguiled André Breton, and Graham Greene admired on the murales the rural teachers dressed in white with pious apostolic faces. For a long time artists, scientists, actors, and adventurers flocked to this American Venice where another world awaited them. The author tells the story of Mexico City in reverse, from the chaos of a global metropolis to the rise of the imperial Aztec city of Tenochtitlan." -- Amazon.comBy Pekka Hämäläinen. 2022
"There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings…
back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction. Yet as with other long-accepted origin stories, this one, too, turns out to be based in myth and distortion. In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals. From the Iroquois in the Northeast to the Comanches on the Plains, and from the Pueblos in the Southwest to the Cherokees in the Southeast, Native nations frequently decimated white newcomers in battle. Even as the white population exploded and colonists' land greed grew more extravagant, Indigenous peoples flourished due to sophisticated diplomacy and leadership structures. By 1776, various colonial powers claimed nearly all of the continent, but Indigenous peoples still controlled it-as Hämäläinen points out, the maps in modern textbooks that paint much of North America in neat, color-coded blocks confuse outlandish imperial boasts for actual holdings. In fact, Native power peaked in the late nineteenth century, with the Lakota victory in 1876 at Little Big Horn, which was not an American blunder, but an all-too-expected outcome. Hämäläinen ultimately contends that the very notion of "colonial America" is misleading, and that we should speak instead of an "Indigenous America" that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. The evidence of Indigenous defiance is apparent today in the hundreds of Native nations that still dot the United States and Canada. Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history." -- Provided by publisherBy Elisabeth Leake. 2022
"A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan --an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and…
across the wider world. On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade and creating a political crisis that shook the world. To many observers, the Soviet invasion showed the lengths to which one of the world's superpowers would go to vie for supremacy in the global Cold War. The Soviet war, and parallel covert American aid to Afghan resistance fighters, would come to be a defining event of international politics in the final years of the Cold War, lingering far beyond the Soviet Union's own demise. Yet Cold War competition is only a small part of the story. Soviet troops entered a country already at war with itself. A century of debates within Afghanistan over the nature of modern nationhood culminated in a 1978 coup in which self-described Afghan communists pledged to fundamentally reshape Afghanistan. Instead what broke out was a civil war in which Afghans asserted competing models of Afghan statehood. Afghan socialists and Islamists came to the fore of this conflict in the 1980s, thanks in part to Soviet and American involvement, but they represented a broader movement for local articulations of social and political modernity that did not derive from foreign models. Afghans, in conversation with foreigners, set many of the parameters of the conflict. This sweeping history moves between centres of state in Kabul, Moscow, Islamabad, and Washington, the halls of global governance in Geneva and New York, resistance hubs in Peshawar and Panjshir, and refugee camps scattered across Pakistan's borderlands to tell a story that is much more expansive than the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan--a global history of a moment of crisis not just for Afghanistan or the Cold War but international relations and the postcolonial state." -- Provided by publisherBy P. J Wingate. 1985
Raised on the family farm, the author reminisces about growing up in Dorchester county on the lower Eastern shore. He…
recalls his school years while revealing himself as a perceptive observer and gentle humorist. For high school and adult readersBy David W Lesch. 2019
"Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But…
how did this once rich, multi-cultural society end up as the site of one of the twenty-first century's most devastating and brutal conflicts? In this incisive book, internationally renowned Syria expert David Lesch takes the reader on an illuminating journey through the last hundred years of Syrian history - from the end of the Ottoman empire through to the current civil war. The Syria he reveals is a fractured mosaic, whose identity (or lack thereof) has played a crucial part in its trajectory over the past century. Only once the complexities and challenges of Syria's history are understood can this pivotal country in the Middle East begin to rebuild and heal." -- Provided by publisherBy Colin Kaepernick. 2022
"When Colin Kaepernick was five years old, he was given a simple school assignment: draw a picture of yourself and…
your family. What young Colin does next with his brown crayon changes his whole world and worldview, providing a valuable lesson on embracing and celebrating his Black identity through the power of radical self-love and knowing your inherent worth. I Color Myself Different is a joyful ode to Black and Brown lives based on real events in young Colin's life that is perfect for every reader's bookshelf. It's a story of self-discovery, staying true to one's self, and advocating for change--even when you're very little!" -- Provided by publisher"Food is a fun way to celebrate diversity, and in her new kids' cookbook, best-selling author Deanna F. Cook leads…
young chefs on a tasty tour of global cultures and cuisines. Kids gain practical kitchen skills through preparing breakfasts, drinks, snacks, dinners, and desserts from around the world. Alongside recipes for foods such as Irish soda bread, ANZAC biscuits, ramen noodle soup, and mango lassi, step-by-step photography and profiles feature children from a wide range of backgrounds honoring their heritage and preparing dishes that reflect their unique food traditions. A pop-out food passport, world language flash cards, and flag stickers provide additional fun on their global food journey, while infographics encourage taste-test explorations of fruits, drinks, breads, vegetables, and ice creams from around the world. Kids will be inspired to expand their palates as they cook, discovering new flavors while developing pride and appreciation for the foods they've grown up with." -- Provided by publisherBy Gregor Stark. 1998
Amelia Elizabeth White (1878-1972) was born into an East Coast world of wealth and privilege. After serving as army nurses…
in Europe during World War I, she and her sister Martha chose to settle in the small town of Santa Fe, New Mexico. There Elizabeth became a passionate advocate for Pueblo Indian rights, an inspired patron and promoter of Indian art, and a dedicated community activist for the preservation of Santa Fe's history. White organized several traveling expositions of Indian art and was instrumental in founding the Indian Arts Fund, the Laboratory of Anthropology, the Old Santa Fe Association, and the Santa Fe Indian Market."-- GoodreadsBy John Ralston Saul. 1998
En appuyant sa réflexion sur la parole même de nos romanciers, poètes, historiens, chansonniers, philosophes, de même que sur celle…
de nos hommes politiques les plus innovateurs, Saul dégage toute l'originalité du projet canadien.