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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The construction of the great pyramids of Egypt, the development of democracy in ancient Greece, the glories of ancient Rome - these stories are familiar to students of history. But what about the rest of the world? How do the histories of China and Japan, or Russia, India, and the remote territories of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America fit in with commonly known accounts of Western traditions? Learn the rest of the story with these 36 riveting
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvii, 190 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives. "You Can Tell Just by Looking" unpacks enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Some of these myths, such as "all religions condemn homosexuality, " have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Other myths, such as "LGBT...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xvii, 941 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Before Hitler seized power in 1933 Germany had been famous for its sophistication and complexity. So how was it possible for a group of ideological obsessives to re-mould it into a one-party state directed at war and race hate? How did the Nazis win over the hearts and minds of Germany's citizens, twist science, religion and culture, and transform the country's politics to achieve total dominance so quickly? From the Nuremberg Laws to the Olympic...
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations (color), maps (color), plans ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Admire Siem Reap's awe-inspiring Angkor Wat, sample French-Lao cuisine at Luang Prabang's waterfront restaurants, or take a boat ride down the Mekong and stop off at the magical islands of Si Phan Don. Everything you need to know is clearly laid out within color-coded chapters. Discover the best of Cambodia and Laos with this indispensable travel guide. *Comprehensive tours and itineraries for every interest and budget. *Illustrations and floor plans...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
12 CDs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm) inserted in containers.
Language
English
Description
God, Torah, and Israel. These three concepts (i.e., personal belief, the meaning of Jewish ritual acts, and the purpose of continued Jewish existence) have been the focus of Jewish thought throughout history. But the last four centuries presented Jewish thinkers with difficult challenges. These lectures address the challenges to Jewish intellectual thought in the past 500 years, identifying such challenges and revealing the ways in which a small group...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (12 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas today.
Publisher
Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Fourteenth edition.
Physical Desc
5 volumes : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents easy-to-understand information on more than 200 countries and dependencies from around the world in 5 volumes. The 4 country volumes are arranged by global region--Africa, Americas, Asia & Oceania, and Europe--while a United Nations volume focuses on that organization's purposes, principles, and agencies, including the Security Council and Human Rights Commission. Each country entry breaks the country's information into 49 numbered headings...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on religion and culture. Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United States in an arranged marriage that becomes a love match lasting forty years; from secular Muslim in an Islamic society to devout Muslim in a society ignorant of Islam,...
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 558 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at the root causes of terrorism; discusses the psychological, social, and religious aspects of terrorism; and offers practical solutions on ways to identify and prevent future terrorists.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Harvey Milk--eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck--was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century. Before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
24 CDs (approximately 24 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lecture series on the French Revolution. The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after Napoleon in 1814 is an astonishing period in world history. This era shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society ; not just for France, but for all of Europe.
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
361 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Gullah culture, though borne of isolation and slavery, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island, SC. On this small barrier island descendants of the first generations of Gullah people continue to preserve Gullah language, customs, arts, and cuisine. The three authors of Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956 are among those descendants,...
Author
Publisher
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This exhibition catalog to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse chronicles the pervasive visual and sonic parallels in the work of Black artists from the southern United States. It looks to contemporary southern hip-hop as a portal into the roots and aesthetic legacies that have shaped contemporary art from the 1920s to the present. It features multiple generations of both academically...
20) Africa's moment
Author
Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xv, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and monotheist. If poverty and violence are still rampant, economic growth has taken off again and a middle class is developing. Africa will hold a central place in the big issues facing the world today. If it once made a 'false start', here it is...
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