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Author
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 720 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 206 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages ): illustrations.
Language
English
Description
The authors explore the new retirement as people live longer lives, including work, leisure, health, family, home, finances, and purpose. "The world is witnessing a powerful new version of retirement, driven by the power and needs of the Baby Boomer generation. Consumers over age 50 account for more than half of all spending and control more than 70% of our total net worth -- yet are largely ignored by youth-focused marketers. How will work, family,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China because he is also one of the most censored) chose his subjects from the bottom of Chinese society: people for whom the "new" China--the China of economic growth and globalization--is no more beneficial than the old. Here are a professional...
Author
Series
Publisher
Button Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
55 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Get ready to discover what it was like to live in this epic era of mad, bad emperors, wealthy senators, fearsome gladiators, loyal citizens, struggling lower classes and enslaved workers. With its highly structured and complicated society, life was a lavish and pampered affair for some and a harsh, beleaguered existence for others. Find out how this powerful civilisation invaded and conquered a massive area, including more than 50 million people at...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, tells of how a poor Ghanaian boy buys a chicken through a community loan program, which eventually helps lift him, his mother, and his community out of poverty.
Publisher
Televisa S.A. de C.V
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A group of juvenile delinquents live a life full of violence and crime in one of the most deteriorated, poor neighborhoods in Mexico City. The morality of the youth Pedro is corrupted gradually by other characters.
3807) Pride & prejudice
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
3808) The killing fields
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver’s insightful stories reverberate into the present day. These are incisive and intimate portraits of African American families in everyday...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1966, and it's a testing time for the midwives. But there's excitement, too, as the women's rights movement intensifies. With Trixie's help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House of its financial quandary. Dr. Turner deals with an array of difficult cases including a former soldier involved in nuclear test explosion. Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan experiences a crisis of faith, and Sister Frances realizes she needs to be a little...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A narrative report on China's first generation of only daughters after the lift of the one-child policy examines the accomplishments and prospects of high-achieving young women who are postponing or avoiding marriage for the sake of professional careers that have rendered them less compatible with their rural-resident male counterparts.
3814) The folded earth
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Free Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known to all as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with this eccentric, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might be able to forge a new existence away from the devastation of her past. As Maya finds out, no place...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey every day. But with Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation since the late 1800s, traveling as a Black person in the US could be stressful, even dangerous. So in the 1930s, Victor created a guide--The Negro Motorist Green-Book--compiling information on where to go and what places to avoid so that Black travelers could have a safe and pleasant time. While the Green Book started out small,...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lewis-Giggetts wrote a piece on Black joy as a form of resistance for The Washington Post, she had no idea just how much or how widely it would resonate with parents across America. With this book she shows how joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life, and then details these instances of joy in the context of Black culture. - adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life in colonial America differed depending on where you lived. Some places depended on the body of water they lived by. Some places were already bustling towns. But no matter the colony, one way America grew was through the kids that lived and grew up there! In this book, readers delve into the family life, schooling, food, clothing, and other ways of life of kids who lived during the colonial period in the parts of North America that would become...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (156 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.
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