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Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Critics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inception, proved to be steeped in environmental concerns that address elements of the natural world and relate nature to the transatlantic slave trade, plantation labor, and nationhood. Toni Morrison's work is no exception. Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color is the first full-length...
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Dennis Chávez was born in the small farming community of Los Chávez in 1888 in what was then the Territory of New Mexico. His childhood home had dirt floors and no indoor plumbing. As a boy, he tended his father's crops and sheep. He spoke only Spanish and never went to high school or college. This bilingual "flip" book for intermediate readers recounts the inspiring story of Dennis Chávez, who in spite of having to drop out of school in the seventh...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When he traded a comfortable if demanding practice in San Antonio, Texas, for a ride on a C-130 into the combat zone, Warren was already reeling from months of personal struggle. At the 332nd Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, he realized his experience with trauma was just beginning. In his 120 days in a tent hospital, he was trained in a different specialty-- surviving over a hundred mortar attacks and trying desperately to repair...
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
""The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions of Islam, as well as a full range of genres-poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, political writing, cultural writing, and of course plenty of texts which mix and match and blur all of these modes . . . the trajectories between the pieces-like that of kismet-will be multiple, nonlinear, abstract. The Muslim community is plural and contradictory. This collection of...
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Series
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Patton (1891-1934) was born in central Mississippi. By 1908, he had begun his performing career, initially at small house parties, then at barrelhouses and other settings that could accommodate a hundred people or more. Until his death in 1934, Patton was a top draw for the numerous African Americans then living and working in the Delta. In 1929 and 1930, he recorded several hits for Paramount Records, on the basis of which he was sought...
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona--a celebrated desert of rock and sand punctuated by gorges and mesas--is a region hotly contested among vying and disparate interests, from industrial developers to wilderness preservation advocates. Roads are central to the conflicts raging in an area perceived as one of the last large roadless places in the continental United States. The canyon country in fact contains an extensive network...
Publisher
Time Life
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Amazing performances of the 2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony. Features poignant reunions, moving and often hilarious induction speeches, and performances from various artists.
Amazing performances of the 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony. Features poignant reunions, moving and often hilarious induction speeches, and performances from various artists.
Amazing performances of the 2016 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction...
271) Revival
Author
Publisher
Sperling & Kupfer
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Italiano
Description
"Più di cinquant'anni fa, in una placida cittadina del New England, un'ombra si allunga sui giochi di un bambino di sei anni. Quando il piccolo Jamie alza lo sguardo, sopra di lui si staglia la figura rassicurante del nuovo reverendo, appena arrivato per dare linfa alla vita spirituale della congregazione. Intelligente, giovane e simpatico, Charles Jacobs conquista la fiducia dei suoi parrocchiani e l'amicizia incondizionata del bambino: per lui...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre of films focused on crime syndicates, crooked cops, and capers. With the Senate's organized crime hearings and the brighter-than-bright myth of the American Dream as a backdrop, Miklitsch examines the style and history, and the production and cultural politics, of classic pictures from The Big Heat and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Since the FUDS parody menu went viral through the Brooklyn foodie scene, then the broader food world and the even broader Internet in 2012, people have been clamoring for the recipes behind those menu items. (Well, actually, no, they haven't, because most of them consisted of baffling nonsense words [Mini-hrak cuddles with malonies] or otherwise sounded disgusting [Dead dog co-plated with yam clippings and a leafy sage dumping.] Oftentimes, both.)...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"This book combines political with environmental history to present conservation policy as a critical arm of New Deal reform, one that embodied the promises and limits of midcentury American liberalism. It interprets the natural resource programs of the 1930s and 1940s as a set of federal strategies aimed at rehabilitating the economies of agricultural areas. The New Dealers believed that the country as a whole would remain mired in depression as...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Language
English
Description
"In the 21st century, nuclear power has been identified as a viable alternative to traditional energy sources to stem global climate change, and condemned as risky to human health and environmentally irresponsible. Do the advantages of nuclear energy outweigh the risks, especially in light of the meltdown at the Fukushima plant in 2011? This guide provides both a comprehensive overview of this critical and controversial technology, presenting reference...
277) Explorer: Season 11
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The mouth of Hell: Phil Keoghan visits a volcano, light changes lives in Tanzania, horse cloning impacts disease and Americans prep for a nuclear attack.
Digging up dinosaurs: Phil Keoghan digs for dinosaurs. Correspondents examine a global drop in male fertility, embed with a smuggler in Gaza and dig into miracle dirt.
Inside the eagle's nest: Hawaiians living off the food grid. Research into acute peanut allergies. Cultural significance of samurai...
278) New Deal thought
Series
American heritage volume 70
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""Seasoned and novice growers alike will find a mother lode of information and wisdom packed into this gem of a book!"-Nancy Phillips, author of The Herbalist's Way *Updated with new information about herb dryers and construction, soil fertility, growing cannabis, and more In the first edition of The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer, authors Jeff and Melanie Carpenter presented a comprehensive seed-to-bottle guide for aspiring and experienced growers...
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