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Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America
Andrew ed Woolford · [s.n.]
Pages: 344
Format: eBook
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This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups.... |
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Under Full Sail
Rob Mundle · ABC Books
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover
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How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation. More than one million Australians can trace their heritage to the migrant ships of the mid-to-late 19th century... The story of the Clipper ships, and the tens of thousands of migrants they bought to the Australian... |
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Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration
Deborah Nadoolman Landis · Harper Design
Format: Book
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The very first book on the subject of costume illustration for the movies, Hollywood Sketchbook, contains over 500 previously unpublished drawings. More than just pretty pictures, each drawing provides a blueprint for the creation of a costume and a character. This gorgeous volume affords... |
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Finland at War: the Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941-45
Vesa Nenye · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Having foiled the Soviet invasion of the Winter War, the Finns found themselves embroiled in an ongoing conflict to maintain their borders as the Soviets recovered from the initial advances made by the Germans during the Barbarossa campaign. Yet as the red tide of Soviet forces pushed back... |
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Mark Whitaker · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place - Pittsburgh, PA - from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class... |
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Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
Richard S Newman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation,... |
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to "Rolling Stone, " "The New Yorker, " "Vanity Fair, " and other premier magazines, "Alligator Candy "is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.... |
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Atlas of Indian Nations - Deluxe Edition. With accompanying wall map, Native American Lands and Sites
Anton Treuer ·
Atlas of Indian Nations - Deluxe Edition. With accompanying wall map, Native American Lands and Sites
Leather Bound
– January 1, 2013
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Atlas of Indian Nations is a comprehensive resource for those interested in Native American history and culture. Told through maps, photos, art, and archival cartography, this is the story of American Indians that only National Geographic can tell. In the most comprehensive atlas... |
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The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir
George Lucius Salton · University of Wisconsin Press; New edition edition
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback
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In September, 1939, George Lucius Salton's boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by escalating violence and terror under German occupation. His father, a lawyer, was forbidden to work, but eleven-year-old George dug potatoes, split wood, and resourcefully helped his family. They... |
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Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud
Nick Hopwood · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world. In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the Darwinist Ernst Haeckel in which humans and other... |
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